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Words Whisperered By Fathers

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Posted on Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 8:37 am by Lars Toomre

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

— Jean Paul Richter

German novelist and humorist, 1763-1825

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