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The catastrophe
Buried in the stair carpet stayed there
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So we may never
Again feel fully confident of the stratagem that bore us
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As I pursued my bodily functions, wanting
Neither fire nor water,
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Extreme patience and persistence are required,
Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed
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The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be sa ...
"When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought ...
Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when t ...
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative l ...
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