“So for the mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.”
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“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”
“A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.”
“My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escurial.”
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.”
“The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.”
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”
“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.”
“Don't be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise.”
“Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.”