"The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise."

-- Robert Breault

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“Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.”
“To a poet nothing can be useless.”
“The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

Source : Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.169, Booklassic
“The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.”
“I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.”
“Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.”

Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.27
“When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb. I would get angry. My legs would actually hurt when I was studying. My head ached. All through school and well into my career, I felt like I had a secret. When I'd go to a new school, I wouldn't want the other kids to know about my learning disability, but then I'd be sent off to remedial reading.”
“The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.”

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