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| It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him | | Mark Twain | |
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| It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean. | | Barbara Bush | |
| Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. | | Robert Orben | |
| Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. | | Aldous Huxley | |
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| My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my grandfather did to him. | | Henry Ford | |
| My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me | | Bible | |
| Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected | | Robert Orben | |
| No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. | | Jane Austen | |
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| Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. | | Anne Frank | |
| Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. | | Evelyn Waugh | |
| Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. | | Groucho Marx | |
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