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| A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w | | Jonathan Swift | |
| A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the | | Buddha | |
| A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold | | Ogden Nash | |
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| A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father | | Sigmund Freud | |
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| A man should never neglect his family for business. | | Walt Disney | |
| A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt | | Mark Twain | |
| A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house : that is the true middle-class unit. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. | | George Eliot | |
| All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter | | Joseph Addison | |
| Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich | | Robert Frost | |
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| By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father | | Douglas MacArthur | |
| Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control. | | Richard Bach | |
| Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. | | William Shakespeare | |
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| Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend | | Robert Frost | |
