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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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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
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"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion."

"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."

"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."

"All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."
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