—Joseph Joubert.
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Spurgeon said: "With children we must mix gentleness with firmness; they must not always have their own way, but they must not always be thwarted. If we never have headaches through rebuking them, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. If you yield up your authority once, you will hardly ever get it again."
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Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to benefit their children by proper discipline.
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My dearest pastime is with children.
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Children are poor men's riches.