"I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope."

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Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.

— F. Paul Wilson