Catherine Crowe (Catherine Ann Crowe) Quotes

The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.

Catherine Crowe

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• Children
• Understanding
• Enough
• Instinct
• Ignorant
• Ghost

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  • Understanding