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A father is a banker provided by nature.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as 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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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
-Joseph Addison
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said Box about: twill come to my father anon.
-John Aubrey
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
-Enid Bagnold
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
-James Baldwin
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Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
-Bible
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Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4
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When God was creating fathers, He started with a tall frame. An angel nearby said, What kind of father is that? If you
-Erma Bombeck
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
-Samuel Butler
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
-Lydia Maria Child
Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
-Confucius
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Father...knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
-Bill Cosby
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If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
-Bill Cosby
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You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
-Erika Cosby
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Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
-Margaret Courtney
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In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
-Croesus
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I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
-Mario Cuomo
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What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
-Mary Mapes Dodge
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us.
-Umberto Eco
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Noble fathers have noble children.
-Euripides
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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
-Euripides
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
-Sigmund Freud
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
-Ernest Hemingway
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