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Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
Augustus Y. Napier
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"Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead."
— Augustus Y. Napier

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Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead. — Augustus Y. Napier

About Augustus Y. Napier

Augustus Y. Napier was a Psychologist (1938–present).

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Augustus Y. Napier lived from 1938 – present.