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Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community.… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
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I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
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The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
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