"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright

Mother, Daughter, Tongue

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"No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair."

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"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."

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"I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal."

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"I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping."

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"My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me."

King George V, British Royalty

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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."

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"My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior."

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"My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles."

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"Necessity, the mother of invention."

George Farquhar, Irish Dramatist

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"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible."

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"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."

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"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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"The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed."

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"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over."

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"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day."

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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."

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