To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. ✨ Temenidae. Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.
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