“If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.”
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
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It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
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