The rules are only barriers to keep children from falling.
[Ces règles ne sont que des barrières pour empêcher les enfants de tomber.]
Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) Swiss-French writer, woman of letters, critic, salonist [Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, Madame de Staël, Madame Necker]
Germany [De l’Allemagne], Part 4, ch. 9 (1813)
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Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.
John Scalzi (b. 1969) American writer
The Last Colony, ch. 4 (2007)
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
