I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
- Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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- You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.