"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother."
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"Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so."
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"The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father."
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"My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all."
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"My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade."
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"Those who trust us educate us."
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"It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him."
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"The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it."
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"I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago - crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers."
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"You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it."
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"I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts."
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"His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path."
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"He never stopped wanting to save the world."
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"Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy."
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