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Norman Douglas
: If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
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When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
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To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.
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The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
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Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
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