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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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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. – Thomas Jefferson

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

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Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did. РMartin Andersen-Nex̦

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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. – Portuguese Proverb

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The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways. – Johnnetta Betsch Cole

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Fame is rot; daughters are the thing. – James Matthew Barrie

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