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"But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete."
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"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
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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."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."
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"Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else."
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"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
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"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."
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"Love and advise your children unconditionally."
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"I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason."
Reason
"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years."
Family
"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."
Man
"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised."
Virtue
"This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted."
Heart
"Rare is the union of beauty and purity."
Beauty
"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."
Vice
"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."
Nature
"The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face."
Will
"Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove."
Criticism
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