"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
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"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
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"The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'"
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"This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone."
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"Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood."
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"Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things."
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"It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons."
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"Action expresses priorities."
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"The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel."
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"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers."
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"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."
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"You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words."
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"The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do."
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"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
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"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want."
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"One life is worth no more or less than any other"
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"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."
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"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs."
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"If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too"
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