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  • Mothers of large families (who claim to common sense) Will find aTiger will repay the trouble and expense.

    - (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
      The Bad Child's Book of Beasts,'The Tiger'.

  • Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name J, and rejoice before him. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: buttherebellious dwell ina dry land.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    AHPsalms 68:4^6.

  • We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

    - Edmund Burke
      Reflections on the Revolution in France.

  • Dos linajes so  lohay en el mundo, como dec|a una abuela m|a, que son el tener y el no tener. There are but two families in the world, as my grandmother used to saythe Haves and the Havenots.

    - Miguel de Cervantes
      Don Quixote, pt.2, ch.20.

  • A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.

    -William Congreve
      Sir Sampson to  Angelica. Love for Love, act 5, sc.2.

  • BRADYISM: A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in large families†symptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a well-defined personal space.

    - Douglas Coupland
    Generation X,'Define Normal'.

  • Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^50  Mr Micawber. David Copperfield, ch.28.

  • Familles! je vous hais! Foyers clos; portes referme  es; possessions jalouses du bonheur. Families! I hate you! Enclosed hallways, shut doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

    - Andre   Paul Guillaume Gide
      Les Nourritures terrestres, pt.4.

  • Such accidents will happen in the best-regulated families.

    - Christopher pseudonym of  JohnWilson North
      'Noctes  Ambrosianae', no.67, in Blackwood's Magazine, Aug.

  • There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.

    - Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness Thatcher
      In Woman's Own, 31 Oct.

  •    All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

    - Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
      Anna Karenina, opening words.

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