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“No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.”
“There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.”
“Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you're in emotional debt, you're pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered.”
“Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.”
“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”
“It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.”