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Let a father wed his daughter to a scholar,
even if he spend all his money on her dowry!
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A pretty daughter is worth half the dowry.
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What is the true national education? That which makes children absorb the national spirit unconsciously.
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No man can enjoy full happiness save with his wife and children.
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The good deeds of parents are a happy augury for their children.
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Who ridicules his father is no better than a worshipper of idols.
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Three things are best beloved by a man:
homeland, children, and life.
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Boys should be given bread, old men---oil,
babies---honey.
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Knowledge acquired in childhood is not soon forgotten.
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A man has three that love him:
his children, his money and his good deeds.
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Have you ever heard of a son rejecting his mother
beause he found a nicer one?
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Happy he that grew up with a good name
and departed this world with one.
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No father should give his son the name of a wicked man.
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When an orphan smiles, heaven and earth smile with him.
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What God is to the world, parents are to their children.
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By grace of children parents win respect.
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One does not keep children from school
even to build the Temple.
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A town without schoolchildren is doomed to destruction.
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A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish one is his mother's grief.
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Who spares the rod hates his son.
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Like father, like son.
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Honor your father - - - even if you have to go begging from door to door.
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Out of the mouths of children and drunkards one may discover the truth.
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A bundle of reeds cannot be broken by a man; but, taken singly, even a child can break them.
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It is enough that our wives bring up our children and save us from sin.