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Children

Parents who boast of their child's developmental progress mistake a general miracle for a particular miracle.
The adult's unit of aging is the decade, the child's is the month. Humans age faster, the younger they are.

open quote Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism... inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own. close quote

-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism