When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

"When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it." – William Makepeace Thackeray

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• Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.
• What family has no mariner in its tree? No fool, no felon. No fisherman.
• In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
• Children keep a family together, especially when one can’t get a babysitter.
• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
• Woman is the salvation or destruction of the family. She carries its destinies in the folds of her mantle.
• Frankly, I’m fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.
• All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
• A family in harmony will prosper in everything.
• Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

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