A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
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A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself But when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
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