“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
“All children, except one, grow up.”
“I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.”
“Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. ”
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
“They had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her prettiness;”