“A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.”
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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
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