A. E. Coppard quotes
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“Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.”
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“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.”
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“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”
-- A. E. Coppard
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“Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.”
Source : She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"
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“Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.”
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“The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.”
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“But sons have to be soldiers. And soldiers adapt.”
Source : "Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal". Book by Alexander C. Irvine, 2009.
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