"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.“

-Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Alfred Lord Tennyson quote about home: "A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."

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"I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids."

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"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."

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"To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry."

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"We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing."

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