“I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.”
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“In the dusk I saw her smile, that incredible female smile. It is called wisdom but it isn't that but rather an understanding that makes wisdom unnecessary.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter VII
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