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If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
P. D. James
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P. D. James
Age: 94 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 3
Died: 2014
Died: November 27
Member Of The House Of Lords
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Science Fiction Writer
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Phyllis Dorothy James
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Baroness James of Holland Park
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In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.
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