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My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.
My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?
My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.
There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.
Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
