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"I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman."
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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
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"In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience."

"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal."

"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."

"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."

"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."

"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."

"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."
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