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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."
"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."
"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
"Never tell a child that something it's too hard."
"You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father."
"Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."
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