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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. to be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.
-C. S. Lewis
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Critics Who Treat Adult As A Term

C. S. Lewis
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. to be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.
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