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Parents are no more to be regarded as intolerably tyrannical because of persistence in definite opinions than children are to be viewed as totally depraved or curelessly dogmatic because of unrelinquishing adherence to certain viewpoints.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen

And all the while she is aware of the insistent hawk-like poising of the face of the wood-cutter, poised on the edge of the darkness, in the doorway, in possession, unrelinquishing.

From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)