Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

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Ismeretlen

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

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Wordsworth, William

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

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Cosby, Bill

One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.

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Herbert, George

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."

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Killebrew, Harmon

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

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