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"...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world."
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"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
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"Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence."
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"Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people."
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"Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child."
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"Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower."
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"This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child's mind."
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"Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them."
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"In parenting patience is the greatest virtue."
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"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
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"Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created."
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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
Society
"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."
Society
"Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese."
Dreams
"Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing."
Art
"You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?"
Creativity
"But tonight is a gusty, hurrying night . . . even the clouds racing over the sky are in a hurry and the moonlight that gushes out between them is in a hurry to flood the world."
Nature
"Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones."
Reflection
"I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it. It's next thing to giving life."
Love
"Love! What a searing, torturing, intolerably sweet thing it was - this possession of body, soul and mind! With something at its core as fine and remote and purely spiritual as the tiny blue spark in the heart of the unbreakable diamond."
Love
"Desire grows by what it feeds on."
Desire
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