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My Father Quotes by Lincoln Steffens
- My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an…
- My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
- I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.
- My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would…
- One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into…
- My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
- If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.
- My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.
- My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
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