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"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in."
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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

"Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too."

"That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself."

"My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company."

"When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes."
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"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"

"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed."

"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency."

"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"

"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere."
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