No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune … - Charles Francis Richter

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I didn't respond to the kind of sarcastic tone. It felt like some of the Sarah Palin speech was written as though it were a Saturday Night Live newscast. Maybe that's because she looks very similar. . . She's got her Tina Fey thing going.

Charles Francis Richter

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

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