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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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"It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry."


"There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years."


"When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant."


"His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son."
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