His cares are eased with intervals of bliss:
His little children, climbing for a kiss,
Welcome their father's late return at night.
—Dryden.
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A BAD EXAMPLE.
Whatever parent gives his children good instruction, and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand, and poison in the other.
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Children have neither past nor future; and what scarcely ever happens to us, they enjoy the present.
—La Bruyere.