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"But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete."
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"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."
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"Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else."
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"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
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"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."
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"Love and advise your children unconditionally."
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"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
Action
"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
Time
"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."
Death
"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."
Man
"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."
Life
"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s."
Character
"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."
Joy
"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go."
Joy
"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."
Action
"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them."
Suffering
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