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"I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control."
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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

"My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!"

"This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died-what I call your 'spiritual security'-knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame."
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"All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."


"I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third."


"When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."


"If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic."


"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."
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