Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.Freya Stark
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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