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A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. - [Mothers] One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. - [Middle Age] Lounging idly in the deserted little waiting-room was the usual shabby, bored, lonely ticket-seller, prodigiously indifferent to the grave beauty of the scene before him and to the throng of ancient memories jostling him where he stood. - The Brimming Cup [Books (First Lines)] She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times! - The Home-Maker (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
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