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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

"Fear is the mother of morality."

"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?"

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

"I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons."
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