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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

—Benjamin Franklin, 1786

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

—Mario Puzo, 2001

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

—August Strindberg, 1886

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

—Tecumseh, 1810

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

—Herodotus, 440 BC

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

—H.L. Mencken, 1919
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