Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.
Phyllis Bottome... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.
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