"Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many."

-- Publilius Syrus

#Leniency Quotes #Pardon Quotes #Offence Quotes

“Put Your Spouse First: When the children are grown and move out of the home, who will be left but your spouse? Nurture that relationship first and foremost. It is your role, together, to be the best parents you can be and what better way to do that than by parenting together and teaching your children (by what you say and do) that the bond of marriage is stronger than any other earthly commitment”
“To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.”
“In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.”
“I have a really powerful urge to see things work.”
“Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.”
“what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?”

Source : Emily Eden (1860). “The Semi-detached House”, p.231
“We must prepare students for a future we can neither describe nor predict.”
“In most of the countries in the Muslim world today, most of them are autocratic regimes that are unpopular if not detested by their people. They need a scapegoat and for a long time the imperialist served that purpose.”

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