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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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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state. – Thomas Jefferson

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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. – Portuguese Proverb

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How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. – John Gay

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Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half – especially if he has a teenage daughter. – Guy Lombardo

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A daughter is a gift of love. – Author unknown

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