home soon flies abroad.

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CHILDREN.

I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, "Children, you must not make
so much noise," that I do not think how soon the time may come when,
beside the vacant chair, those parents would give all the world, could
they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.

--_A. E. Kittredge._

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Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts.

267

What is there in nature so dear to man as his own children?

--_Cicero._

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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

--_Cicero._

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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._

272

An honorable life is the best legacy a father can leave to his children.

273

Children should not be flattered, but they should be encouraged. They
should not be so praised as to make them vain and proud, but they should
be commended when they do well.

274

Children are excellent physiognomists, and soon discover their real
friends.

275

_Dr. Guthrie_--He believed--to use his own words--that "where parents
will never punish their children, those children will punish them."

_From Dr. Guthrie's Memoir._

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Indulgence to children breeds ingratitude.

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A man who gives his children habits of industry, provides for them
better than by giving them a fortune.

_Whately._

278

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 childre