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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. (Voltaire)[][]
If parents would only realize how they bore their children! (George Bernard Shaw)[][]
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. (George Bernard Shaw)[][]
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. (Sir Walter Scott)[][]
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child? (Nagarjuna)[][]
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. (Lucan)[][]
It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not. (Jean La Bruyere)[][]
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. (Hubert Humphrey)[][]
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. (Thomas Hardy)[][]
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. (John Bowring)[][]
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