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The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#kept #many #men #mistress #things

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools. ↗

— Bob Riley

#economy #our #schools #success

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#excel #excellence #fancy #human #may

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#compliment #compliments #love #mean #men

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#child #early #follies #future #generally

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#children #education #figure #inclinations #made

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#made #make #parents #sometimes #themselves

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#difficult #disfavor #favor #fix #more

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#child #effectual #fitter #generally #more