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You Can't Cheat Kids. If You Cheat Them When They're Children They'll Make You Pay When They're Sixteen Or Seventeen By Revolting Against You Or Hating You Or All Those So-called Teenage Problems. I Think That's Finally When They're Old Enough To Stand Up To You And Say, 'what A Hypocrite You've Been All This Time. You've Never Given Me What I Really Wanted, Which Is You.

-John Lennon

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You Can't Cheat Kids.

John Lennon

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You Can't Cheat Kids. If You Cheat Them When They're Children They'll Make You Pay When They're Sixteen Or Seventeen By Revolting Against You Or Hating You Or All Those So-called Teenage Problems. I Think That's Finally When They're Old Enough To Stand Up To You And Say, 'what A Hypocrite You've Been All This Time. You've Never Given Me What I Really Wanted, Which Is You.

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