• There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

  Anatole Broyard
  American writer, literary critic, and editor
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. everything
2. children
3. opposed
4. present
5. expect

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. by : Anatole Broyard

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