If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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“I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.”
“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”