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 He who has daughters is always a shepherd.  I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. I have called the principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term of Natural Selection. Mothers can get weaned as well as babies. There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents. All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. I am he As you are me And we are all together. Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best. - Joe Cook There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents. The family is the American fascism. The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children. Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other. No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee. 
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