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Mary Antin

"You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses."

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"You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses."

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"Don't give up on yourself, your dreams and your family."

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"It is wonderful to live together as brothers and sisters."

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"Children observe everything with caution."

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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."

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"Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see."

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"Blessed your mum, who carried you in a womb for nine months."

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"Children are the most fearless souls on earth."

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"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."
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"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."
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"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
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"The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family."
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"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
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"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day."
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"In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths."
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"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."
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"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
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