Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Of the Training of Children.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

Of the Training of Children.

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

Of the Training of Children.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

Of the Training of Children.

'T is a wise saying, Drive on your own track.

Of the Training of Children.

It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.