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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park The younger brother hath the more wit. ~Alexander Pope Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply... ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814 When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. ~Antisthenes The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble. ~Clara Ortega After a girl is grown, her little brothers — now her protectors — seem like big brothers. ~Terri Guillemets It takes two men to make one brother. ~Israel Zangwill, The Principle of Nationalities, 1917 [Context note: In this address, Zangwill is actually referring to the brotherhood of humanity, not siblings. To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. ~Clara Ortega Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long. ~Susan Scarf Merrell Sibling relationships — and 80 percent of Americans have at least one — outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. ~Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings," U.S. News & World Report, 1994 January 10th Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring — quite often the hard way. ~Pamela Dugdale Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face. ~St Francis of Assisi Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas — that’s what my grandma taught me. ~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Jennie My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You’re tearing up the grass." "We’re not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We’re raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose. ~Garrison Keillor As we grew up, my brothers acted like they didn’t care, but I always knew they looked out for me and were there! ~Catherine Pulsifer, Inspirational Words of Wisdom One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras
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