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You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim