It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn
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At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.
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To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.
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Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
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'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!...
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
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"My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!...
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