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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."
"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."
"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn't comprehend. Don't ask for advice from them and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."
"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart."
"So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech."
"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."
"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."
"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."
"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."
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