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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 193
AUTHOR: George Herbert (1593–1633)
QUOTATION: One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
ATTRIBUTION: GEORGE HERBERT, Outlandish Proverbs, Selected by Mr. G. H., no. 404 (1640).—The Works of George Herbert, ed. F. E. Hutchinson, p. 335 (1941).
SUBJECTS: Children