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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

“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

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