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Quote by Quentin Crisp
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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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. – Quentin Crisp

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relationship
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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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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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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. – Joseph Joubert

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

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Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren’t through being children. – Cindy Garner

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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. – Charles DeLint

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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. – Groucho Marx

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Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. – Chinese Proverb

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I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. – Will Rogers

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