“I know you understand the little child inside of your man.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
"Woman"
Lyrics, Double Fantasy (1980)
“If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.”
Notes of August 1842, published in Charles Kingsley : His Letters and Memories of His Life (1883) edited by Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley, p. 65.
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