Have a child's heart

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To have a child's heart: Ernest Hemingway

Ma avere un cuore da bambino non è una vergogna.

È un onore.

A man must behave like a man. He must always fight, preferably and wisely, with the odds in his favor, but in case of necessity he must also fight against any odds and without worrying about the outcome.

Deve seguire i propri usi e le proprie leggi tribali, e quando non può, deve accettare la punizione prevista da queste leggi.

But one must not tell him as a reproach that he has kept a child's heart, a child's honesty, a child's freshness and nobility.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY,True at dawn(1954/56, but released posthumously in 1999)