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There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Father was very sympathetic, and if the hero of a romance was good or to be pitied, his eyes would fill with tears until he could not see.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

Great souls suffer in silence.