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"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."
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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."

"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."

"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"My father never was a famous guy, he was just a person which made a lot of mistakes. But the suicide wasn't the best path, the best choice it was a way which could be skipped by using something else, by doing something else.But the question is why did he do it?To make mad and crazy the daughter of his ladylove??"
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"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."

"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."

"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."

"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."

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

"I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."
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