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Dates and Celebrations
Gloria Steinem
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols—all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child’s authentic self to a parent’s needs.
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George Santayana
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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Montaigne
A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children’s affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.
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Jean de La Bruyère
There are some extraordinary fathers, who seenl, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.
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Primo Levi
If you and your child were going to be lulled tomorrow/would you not give him to eat today?
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Edmond Rostand
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? / An oath that’s given closer than before; / A promise more precise; the sealing of / Confessions that till then were barely breathed; / A rosy dot placed on the i in loving.
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Bertrand Russell
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
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Eurípides
To an old father, nothing is more sweet / Than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways / Are not so tender.
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Joseph Addison
Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship. The passion should strike root and gather strength before marriage be grafted on it.
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Walter Scott
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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Marlene Dietrich
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither.
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Ésquilo
'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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Ésquilo
'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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Robert Frost
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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Bertrand Russell
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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