I wonder if it won't be the same with the children as it has been with us. No matter how long each one of them lives, won't their lives feel to them unfinished like ours, only just beginning? I wonder how far they will go. And then their children will grow up and it will be the same with them. Unfinished lives. Oh, dearie, what children all of us are.
Ernest PooleAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: January 23, 1880
- Died: January 10, 1950
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