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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

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My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.

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I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

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Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

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Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

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Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

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Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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