“ 'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit. ”
“She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.”
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
“A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.”
“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”
“...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.”