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"The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
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"Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time."
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