A mother should give her ...

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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 Augustus Hare

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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
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