A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

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A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities, the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I believe never

It is with flowers as with moral qualities, the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I believe never the sweet.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much, vices almost always too little.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much, vices almost always too little.

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    It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

    Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

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