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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
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A true legacy can be recognized by the fact that it will be left standing when everything else that has attacked it is not. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
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A man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets. ― Raymond Chandler
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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.
