| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 62636 |
| QUOTATION: | And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone;
In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977), U.S. poet. Mother Goose Up-to-Date: Edgar A. Guest Considers the Good “Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe,” (l. 8–10). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
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