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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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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And his expression, now. I realized right then -- how disappointed you could be when you were all in with someone. When you cared so deeply. How your heart could break, so precisely and quickly. ― Maurene Goo

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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes._ Andrew Carnegie

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He was all iron outside, but all father within. ― Hall Caine

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Sons are born to make their fathers better men.― Mekael Shane

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I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Some parents sometimes use junk food as a babysitter. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The handy thing about being a father is that the historical standard is so pitifully low. ― Michael Chabon

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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. — Andrew Carnegie

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