People/Christina Rossetti/Quote
For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.
Goblin Market (1862)
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Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land
Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.
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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.
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