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“It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon...”
“You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it you go home and share it with your family.”
“If you have a good name if you are right more often than you are wrong if your children respect you if your grandchildren are glad to see you if your friends can count on you and you can count on t...”
“My darling little girl-child after such a long and troublesome waiting I now have you in my arms. I am alone no more I have my baby.”
“There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.”
“To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”
“I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.”
“If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.”
“The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.”
“God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.”
“It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.”
“A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.”
“Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.”
“Friendship admits of differences of character as love does that of sex.”
“If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.”
“Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.”
“My God this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor n...”
“There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.”
“Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save save oh save me from the candid friend!”
“Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.”
