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A man who gives his children habits of industry, provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
Whately.
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Choose rather to leave your children well instructed than rich. For the hopes of the learned are better than the riches of the ignorant.
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WOULD YOU HAVE ANSWERED SO?
You would not be in a Japanese house long without noticing their extreme politeness, and that this politeness was especially shown by children toward their parents. The one thing that Japanese children must learn is perfect obedience; a child would as soon think of refusing to do a thing altogether, when told, as to ask why he must do it.
A little * * * girl, the child of a missionary, was playing in the street with some Japanese children.