A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.
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Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of decision.
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She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!
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Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
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