They (=Children) have a dislike of humbug, which usually disappears in later life. The habit of screening them from the knowledge of disagreeable truths is not adopted for their sakes although adults may think it is ; it is adopted because adults themselves find candour painful.
Source：On protecting children from reality (written in Oct. 5, 1932 and pub. in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975
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