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I Don't Know So Much About My Boys, But My Girls, They All Work With Me. They Know How To Work. My Daughters Know It's Not Done Till It's Done, Even If It's Three Or Four In The Morning. I Don't Want Them To Grow Up With Entitlement.

-Marie Osmond

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I Don't Know So Much About My Boys, But My Girls, They All Work With Me. They Know How To Work. My Daughters Know It's Not Done Till It's Done, Even If It's Three Or Four In The Morning. I Don't Want Them To Grow Up With Entitlement.

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