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title: "7 Fathers Good Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Fathers Good quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Fathers Good sayings and thoughts."
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> [The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-longer-i-live-dorian-the-more-keenly-i-feel-that-whatever-was/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-pavese/work-alone-isn-t-enough-for-me-and-mine-we-know-how-to-break-our/)

[Cesare Pavese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-pavese/)

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> [Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/fathers-be-good-to-your-daughters-you-are-the-god-and-the-weight-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-mayer/fathers-be-good-to-your-daughters-daughters-will-love-like-you-do/)

[John Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-mayer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ba/john-mayer-1620_daughters_fathers-be-good-to-your-daughters-daught_1868950.jpg)

> [The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-von-ebner-eschenbach/the-moral-code-which-was-good-enough-for-our-fathers-is-not-good/)

[Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-von-ebner-eschenbach/)

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> [I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/duane-chapman/i-say-to-all-fathers-be-as-good-as-you-can-be-because-your-sons-and/)

[Duane Chapman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/duane-chapman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/duane-chapman-19853_children_i-say-to-all-fathers-be-as-good-as-you-c_2938605.png)

> [Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world. Yes dad, ur the god of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/unknown-p/fathers-be-good-to-your-daughters-you-are-the-god-and-the-weight-of-2/)

[Unknown:p](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/unknown-p/)

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