This week our family learned we’re expecting two little
girls; first daughters for both their parents and first granddaughters for my
sister and me; first great-granddaughter for our mother. We couldn’t be more pleased, excited or proud. In their honor, here’s
a gem from Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls: “If your mother tells you to do
a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to
intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in
the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment. You should ever bear in mind that it is to
your kind parents that you are indebted for your food, and for the privilege of
staying home from school when you let on that you are sick. Therefore you ought
to respect their little prejudices, and humor their little whims, and put up
with their little foibles until they get to crowding you too much.”
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