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Joseph AddisonCertain it is that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as that of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

 - Joseph Addison

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Miguel de CervantesNo fathers and mothers think their own children ugly, and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

 - Miguel de Cervantes

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It is not flesh and blood, it is the heart, that makes fathers and sons.

 - Friedrich Schiller

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Michel de MontaigneThere is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction but revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?

 - Michel de Montaigne

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Christopher HitchensTo be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: It's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body.

 - Christopher Hitchens

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Mark TwainWhen I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

 - Mark Twain

Tags:   adolescence  fathers  maturity  parents