The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

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Topic

Parents and children Marriage

Author

Peter De Vries

Source

The Tunnel of Love

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United States

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Citation

De Vries, Peter. The Tunnel of Love. Little, Brown and Company, 1954, ch. 8.

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Medium
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English
Time
1951 1950s 20th century
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For the hand that rocks the cradle
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Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1865 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wallace, William Ross. What Rules the World. 1865.

Current Citation

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
1987 1980s 20th century
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