If nature had arranged that ...

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
 Laurence Housman

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 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
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If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.
 Laurence Housman
Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.
 Laurence Housman
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
 Laurence Housman