So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

Haniel Clark Long (March 9, 1888, Yangon, Myanmar, then known as Rangoon, Burma - October 17, 1956, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American poet, novelist, publisher and academic. He is best known for his novella, Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca (1936), a fictionalized account of the true story of a Spanish conquistador in 16th century North America

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