Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Mark Twain

1894

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Familiarity breeds contempt Fading love Love

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1894

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Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, 1894.

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