One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.