So tired!

“I have been awfully busy… And it tires me so that generally I go to bed again the next minute after I get up:  and sometimes I go to bed again a minute beforeI get up!  Did you ever hear of any one being so tired as that ?

—Lewis Carroll, 1879

Dads

“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Dad never was a money-maker, and, as nearly as I can make out, he never wanted to be. He worked mighty hard when he worked, but his real job was living.”

—Clarence Budington Kelland, 1927

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“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.’”

—Harmon Killebrew, 1984