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Second, how are all happy families alike? Here Janet comes to Tolstoy’s aid. In a piece about her grandmother, Janet says that although she (Janet) and her sister disdained most of their elders’ jokes, they believed their own family's humor “was of the highest quality.” Then she adds, “All happy families are alike in the illusion of superiority their children touchingly harbor.”