“Parents probably don’t know that they are playing favorites even when they are doing it.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, book Time for the Stars

Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 5, “The Party of the Second Part” (p. 54)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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