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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin read more
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity
 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: 
thy children like olive plants read more 
 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: 
thy children like olive plants round about thy table. 
 Women know
 The way to rear up children (to be just);
  They know a simple, merry, tender read more 
 Women know
 The way to rear up children (to be just);
  They know a simple, merry, tender knack
   Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes,
    And stringing pretty words that make no sense,
     And kissing full sense into empty words;
      Which things are corals to cut life upon,
       Although such trifles. 
 Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the 
womb is his reward.
 As read more 
 Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the 
womb is his reward.
 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the 
youth.
  Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall 
not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the 
gate. 
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
 Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of 
children.  
 Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of 
children. 
 [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio 
doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call read more 
 [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio 
doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call 
changelings. 
 'Tis not a life,
 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.  
 'Tis not a life,
 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.