"Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation."

Parenting, Children, Responsibility, Love

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"Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation."

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"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."

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"When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all."

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"I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back."

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"If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?"

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"Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it."

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"Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you."

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