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Distant relatives are not as important as nearby neighbors.
Distance lends enchantment to relatives and friends.
Even the emperor has straw-sandaled relatives.
To hunt tigers one must have a brother's help.
There is scarcely a young lady in the united kingdoms, who would not rather put up with the misfortune of being sought by a clever ...
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encou ...
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin.... Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
She went in there to muse on being rid
Of relative beneath the coffin lid.
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man ...
How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's l ...
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