Copy ImageI liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself
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We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife
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Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays for them, encourage pursuit of special interests, prompted them to write essays on their readings, and urge them to recite poetry
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Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time