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- Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
- After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper…
- Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
- Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
- Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than…
- Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert
- Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. If faith…
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