"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."

Family, Children, Patience

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"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."

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"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses."

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"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."

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