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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. – Quentin Crisp

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Intelligence
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Quentin Crisp
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A gentleman doesnt pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. – Quentin Crisp

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Seduction
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It is much easier to become a father than to be one. – Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby

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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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Fathers

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. – Author Unknown

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My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material. – Jean M. Auel

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