Henry Home, Lord Kames Quotes About Children
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Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.
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Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.
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To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.
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A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.
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An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.
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An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.
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