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My Mother Quotes by Lincoln Steffens
- My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
- My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
- My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I…
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