"We begin our public affections in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen" Edmund Burke (1790)
"A poor relation - is the most irrelevant thing in nature". Charles Lamb (1833)
"If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business". William Makepeace Thackeray (1847/8)
"All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". Leo Toistoy (1875/7)
"It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof." P. G. Wodehouse
"Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee." David Frost (1989)
"Far from being the basis of the good society, the damily, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents." Edmund Leach (1967)
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