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Edmund Leach

"Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents."

Edmund Leach, British Scientist
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"Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents."

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