That best academy, a mother's ...

That best academy, a mother's knee.
 James Russell Lowell

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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
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There is something magnificent in having a country to love.
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