We are a nation of governesses.
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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.George Bernard Shaw
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
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Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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