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Quote by Alexander Pope
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no do

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. – Alexander Pope

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isnt much better than tedious disease. – Alexander Pope

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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. – Alexander Pope

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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace – in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. – Croesus of Lydia

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Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up. – Author Unknown

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. – Plato

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