"A loving mother who tries to arrange the happiness of her children often connects them on the hands and feet with the narrowness of her views, shortsighted calculations and unbidden tenderness of her cares"
Dmitry Pisarev

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"Unpacked you, son, like a gift from under the tree, a little bit played with you and put in a corner because they have more important things to do"
Janusz Wisniewski

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"Progeny: punishment for errors in technology"
Henry Menken

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"Take care of your children's tears so that they can shed them on your grave"
Pythagoras

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"A child can not live without laughter. If you did not teach him to laugh, joyfully marveling, sympathizing, wanting good, if you could not bring about his wise and kind smile, he would laugh angrily, his laughter would be a mockery "
Vasily Sukhomlinsky

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"A person who was not a child will be a bad citizen"
Fedor Dostoevsky

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"If you are angry, why do you know how to do good to your children, and if you are considered kind and cordial, then why do not you do the same to our children, as well as your own?"
Ivan the Terrible

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"Most Children Have a Child"
Maria-Ebner Eschenbach

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"Be yourself and a man and an infant in order to teach a child"
Vladimir Odoyevsky

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"The child needs your love most when it least deserves it"
Erma Bombeck

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