There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creat… — Helen Hunt Jackson

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

Helen Hunt JacksonWriter · American · 1831 – 1885

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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. — Henry David Thoreau
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. — Oscar Wilde
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. — Michel de Montaigne
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If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful. — Helen Hunt Jackson
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