A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.
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Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
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Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
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Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
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Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtuea good name an unblemished reputationwill abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.
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I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light
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Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.
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No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... But by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...
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If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.
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But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows.. Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.
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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand.
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If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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