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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.
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Author Unknown
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
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Isaac Rosenfeld
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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Haniel Long
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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William James Durant
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
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Pearl S. Buck
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little
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Stanislaus
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