Nonfiction | September 01, 2002
Discipline
Reginald Gibbons
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Mother’s view of life was sometimes expressed in accepted saying: Waste Not, Want Not; Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be; A Word to the Wise is Sufficient.
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