Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.
Miles FranklinThere are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.
Miles FranklinGrandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.
Miles FranklinI early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.
Miles Franklin