The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
In general, those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.
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