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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives
teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling
them to sit down and shut up.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents.
They, too, are serious children.
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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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A childless man is as good as dead.
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Save you honor your parents, your children will not honor you.
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Great is the pain of bringing up sons,
and greater of bringing up daughters.
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In disputes between parents and children,
the children always get the upper hand.
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Little children are a headache and big ones a heartache.
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Children grow up, parents grow old.
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Who circumcises his son is as though he offered all the sacrifices to the Lord.
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A daughter only tells her secrets to her mother.
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It is not what a mother says of her daughter,
but what the neighbors say, that matters.
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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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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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One should respect one's father-in-law like one's own father.
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Despise not your mother, when she is old!
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Have you ever heard of a son rejecting his mother
beause he found a nicer one?
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Adam was the luckiest of men:
he had no mother-in-law.
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Every man has three names: one that his father and mother gave him, one that others call him and one in the scroll of his creation.
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No father should give his son the name of a wicked man.
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These are things whose fruits a man enjoys in this world while the capital is laid up for him in the world to come: honoring his father and mother.
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Whether you have money or not, you should respect your father and mother---
even if you have to go begging from door to door.
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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.