![IMAGE: The Child is father of the Man. [The Child is the father of the Man.] / A leopard cannot change his spots.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/dad-909510_640.jpg)
（日本の諺）三つ子の魂百まで。［三つ子の魂百までも。］
/ （日本の諺）雀百まで踊り忘れず。 - 『いろは歌留多（上方）』
/ 子供は大人の父親である。 - ウィリアム・ワーズワース (1770 - 1850): 『心は躍る』
/ 豹の体の斑点を変えることはできない。
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The Child is father of the Man. [The Child is the father of the Man.] - William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850): My Heart Leaps Up
/ A leopard cannot change his spots.
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us [the one which has opened for us].](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/doors-20172_640_alexander-graham-bell-402095_640-100x75.jpg)
