I hope you are well and that these quotes will help you in your search for more prosperity and happiness. It is my pleasure each week to bring some of that to you and those you keep close.

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1. "It is much easier to become a father than to be one."
--Kent Nerburn

2. "The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life."
--Goethe

3. "To her the name of father was another name for love."
--Fanny Fern

4. "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
--Mark Twain

5. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
--Henry Ward Beecher

6. "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
--Ruth E. Renkel

7. "My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'"
--Harmon Killebrew