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“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

“The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”

“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

“Some men do not know the father of 'their' children.”

“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.”