"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.“


-Phyllis Diller

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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

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