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It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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