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• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Reinhart was never his mother's favorite -- and he was an only child. -- Thomas Berge
• Man is a piece of the universe made alive. -- R. W. Emerso
• I never know what to get my father for his birthday.
  I gave him a hundred dollars and said, "Buy yourself something that will make your life easier....
• The child had his mother's eyes, his mother's nose, and his mother's mouth.
  Which leaves his mother with a pretty blank expression. -- Robert Benchley...
• A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree
  or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely ....
• Homer: Woo hoo! I'm so glad to have my mom back. I never realized how much I missed her!
  Marge: [pause] She's nice. Homer: But...? Marge: I just don't think you should get too excited about the woman who abandoned you for 25 years....
• Questioning an undertaker: Can a person furnish his own casket?
  Would a large radio cabinet be acceptable for burial if hollowed out and made into a child's casket?...
• The real problem with Dan Quayle is that no one is sure of his qualificatio
  o no one can speak with any authority about what kind of work he is out of, or what is needed for him to find something to do....