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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."
"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."
"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn't comprehend. Don't ask for advice from them and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Explore more quotes by Evelyn Waugh
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."
"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."
"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."
"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."
"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."
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