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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. – Quentin Crisp

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I recommend limiting ones involvement in other peoples lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises. – Quentin Crisp

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The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp

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A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. – Author Unknown

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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. – George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. – Author Unknown

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I love my father as the stars — he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. – Terri Guillemets

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