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“The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

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