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Princess Margaret and the earl of Snowdon with their children Sarah and David, 1966. Photograph by Cecil Beaton. © Linley Sambourne House, London/The Bridgeman Library International
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- The Family Circus The Acrobat Family, by Pablo Picasso, 1905. © The Goteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library International
- Mother and Child "The Three Ages of Woman," by Gustav Klimt, 1905. Copyright Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome/Alinari/The Bridgeman Art Library International
- The Evidence at Hand "Joseph’s Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob," by Diego Velázquez, 1630. © The Bridgeman Art Library
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You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
—Robert Frost, 1960
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