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“My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.”

War Kids Mother Father Literature Games Taught Ten Lays Ancient Bridges Rome Eleven English Literature Pedestrians Ancient Rome War Games

Author:Bernie Taupin

“Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.”

Night Father Laughing Ten Stomach Affliction Cheerful Cheerfulness

Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.”

Way Years Two Funny Used Next Father Felt Answers Ten Decided Stronger Method Quitting Smoke Shirts Smoking Pockets Cigarette Packs Adopted Craving Cigar

Author:Kirk Douglas

“I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.”

Trying Years Firsts Used Father Band Ten Musician Jazz West Productions Coast West Coast Annie Jazz Band

Author:Molly Ringwald

“I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned "Now I lay me" and the Lord's Prayer and your father's and mother's name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.”

Believe Mother Father Names Lost I Believe Prayer Numbers Lord Knowledge Cases Pieces Ten Essentials Lays Addresses Equipment Telephones Alphabet Keystones

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.”

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.”

Littles Father Months Ten Summer Winter Locals Hats Farms Farmers Prosperous Acres Winter Months Summer Time

Book:An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)

Source: An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)