"The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days."

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Source : Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

Charlotte Mason

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“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”
“And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away sheâ€™d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time sheâ€™d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, sheâ€™d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and sheâ€™d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.”
“Television is for appearing on, not looking at.”
“I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.”

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“It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.”
“The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.”
“If you enter a race and finish last, you are a winner. The loser never entered the race.”
“But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people”

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