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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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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. – Thomas Jefferson

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I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. – Peter Ustinov

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Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers. – Author Unknown

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A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. – Author Unknown

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

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