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“Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.” William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” - 1623

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“Families stand at the center of our society. And every family has a personal stake in promoting excellence in education.” Ronald Reagan, “State of the Union Address” - 25 January 1984

“We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family.” Pope Francis, “Laudato si'” - 24 May 2015

“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.” Adam Smith, “The Wealth of Nations” - 1776

“I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.” Richard Branson, “Losing My Virginity” - 1998

“There are individual men and women, and there are families” Margaret Thatcher, “The Downing Street Years” - 1993

“The Dutch fetiches, who have converted me, declare every Sunday that we are all of us children of Adam—blacks as well as whites. I am not a genealogist, but if these preachers tell truth, we are all second cousins.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has...” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“Don’t you dare take the lazy way. It’s too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don’t let me catch you doing it! Now—look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do it—not your mother.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world that we have not made.” G. K. Chesterton, “Heretics” - 1905

“Tragedy . . . belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

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