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Fatherhood is not just teaching your son, but also your son's son.

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Fatherhood is marked by less fondness than motherhood, because mothers are more certain they are their own.

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Fatherhood is not about waiting to make one's son a great man, but about making him a great boy.

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Fatherhood is to have one's son at five as one's master, at ten as one's slave, at fifteen asone's double, and after that, one's friend or one's foe, depending on his bringing up.

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Fatherhood is realizing that your father was right at the same time that you have a son who thinks you're wrong.

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Fatherhood is nothing but the wish to duplicate oneself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.