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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this forever!?" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.
Perhaps it hasn't one, Alice ventured to remark.
Tut, tut, child! said the Duchess. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige
I don't think I would be very old at all if I did not know because I wait with anticipation for that wisdom to descend - or maybe I forgot it all and am already in the second childhood. Youth is wasted on the young someone said -