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All The Brothers Were Valiant, And All The Sisters Virtuous.
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All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
-- From the inscription on the tomb of the Duchess of Newcastle
-- in Westminster Abbey
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My brothers and sisters all hated me, 'cause I was an only child. -- "Weird" Al Yankovic
GREEKS do it with their brothers and siste
EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Following is a touching example: Here lie the bones of Parson Platt, Wise, pious, humble and all that, Who showed us life as all should live i...
Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruined sides of kings.
-- Francis Beaumont (1586-1616) -- On the Tombs of Westminster Abbey...
My daddy was a waitress, my momma sold bathroom tile.
.. My brothers and sisters all hated me, 'cause I was an only child....
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.
But a mother's love endures through all. -- Washington Irving...
If all men were brothers, would you want one to marry your sister?
-- the title of a Theodore Sturgeon short story....
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister?
Of all the blessedness of sleep. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), _The Knight's Tomb_