The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
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Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.Charles Colton
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
Charles Colton
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it
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