They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
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My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.
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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
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What America needs is more young people who will carry to their jobs the same enthusiasm for getting ahead that they display in traffic. -M.A. Kelly.
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Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
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Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. -Tom Savage.
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
