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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank