FAMILY
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.—BACON, Of Marriage and Single Life
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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.—STELLA BENSON, Pipers and a Dancer
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A medley of kindred, that 'twould puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
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And so do his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts.—W. S. GILBERT, H.M.S. Pinafore
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My family have done me far more harm than I have been able to do them good.—NAPOLEON
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One would be in less danger
From the wiles of the stranger
If one's own kin and kith
Were more fun to be with.—OGDEN NASH, Family Court
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.—POPE
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It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it.—Proverb
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He that is poor all his kindred scorn him, he that is rich all are kin to him.—Proverb
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Many kinsfolk, few friends.—Proverb
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He that bath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth.—Proverb
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He that has no fools, knaves, or beggars in his family, was begot
by a flash of lightning.Proverb
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Better have one plough going than two cradles.—Proverb
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We have careful thought for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest,
But oft for our own the bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.—MARGARET E. SANGSTER, Our Own
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A family enjoying the unspeakable peace and freedom of being orphans.—BERNARD SHAW, You Never Can Tell
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All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own fashion.—TOLSTOY, Anna Karenina
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We flatter those we scarcely know
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.—ELLA W. WILCOX, Life's Scars
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