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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impr

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. – Thomas Jefferson

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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson

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What the daughter does, the mother did. – Jewish Proverb

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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. – Jim Bishop

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. – Thomas Fuller

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The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex. – Wynonna Judd

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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. – Samuel Richardson

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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still dont get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family? – Gertrude Stein

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