Three-year-olds see the world in black-and-white terms.... They have been told that they should be good. They want to believe that... they are good.... Therefore, they weren't the ones who poured jam all over the sleeping cocker spaniel. Denying their culpability is neither malicious nor sneaky; it just reflects the unshaded terms in which preschoolers view the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offend...ed. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently--and tolerantly--to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are, in some degree, independent of men ... Whilst they are absolutely dependent ...on their husbands they will be cunning, mean, and selfish, and the men who can be gratified by the fawning fondness of spaniel-like affection, have not much delicacy, for love is not to be bought, in any sense of the words, its silken wings are instantly shrivelled up when any thing beside a return in kind is sought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And everybody praised the Duke Who such a fight did win.--... But what good came of it at last? Quoth little Peterkin.-- Why that I cannot tell, said he, But 'twas a famous victory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »