Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always … - Margaret Oliphant

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If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.

Margaret Oliphant

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

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