I get whatever placidity I ...

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
 Norma Shearer

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An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
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