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If young people are educated properly, we have moral order; if not, vice and disorder prevail. Religion alone can initiate and achieve a true education.

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Kindness of speech, in word, in advising conquers everything and all.

Be cheerful, do good, and let the sparrows chirp.

With the works of charity we closed the doors of hell and open ourselves to the sky.

Those who pray take care of the most important of all.

I'll wait for all my young people in heaven.

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