Children should be taught to feel deference, not to practise submission.
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It is always a proof of false refinement, when a fastidious taste overpowers sympathy.
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Lust appears to be the most natural companion of wild ambition; and love of human praise, of that dominion erected by cunning.
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"Genius decays as judgment increases." Of course, those who have the least genius, have the earliest appearance of wisdom.
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A knowledge of the fine arts, is seldom subservient to the promotion of either religion or virtue. Elegance is often indecency; witness our prints.