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" For when a child is born the mother also is born again. "
Gilbert Parker
Child
Mother's Day
Born
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" Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry. "
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" Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. "
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" The real business of life is trying to understand each other. "
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" When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half. "
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" But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave. "
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" He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. "
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" Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. "
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" Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. "
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" She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. "
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" There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. "
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" It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. "
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" In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. "
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" It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. "
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" Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. "
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" If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? "
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