A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.
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If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
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Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
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