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"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."
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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."
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"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."
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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"
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"I squinted at her. "You're an adult. "You're an adult too. "But you're an older adult. You've had more practice. Mom leaned back and laughed."
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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."
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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."
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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"
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"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."
Family
"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
Sympathy
"So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be."
Isolation
"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."
Isolation
"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
Reading
"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."
Vice
"What begins in fear usually ends in folly."
Evolution
"The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I."
Isolation
"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming."
Reform
"But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts."
Vision
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