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"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."
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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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"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."

"A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell."

"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."

"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done."
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