“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”
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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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