"What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them"

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Source : Andrew Combe (1871). “The Management of Infancy, Physiological and Moral: Intended Chiefly for the Use of Parents”, p.251

Andrew Combe

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“Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.”
“Leaving behind books is even more beautiful â€” there are far too many children.”
“When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.”
“As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.”
“Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.”
“Loving what is right is different from hating what is wrong and feeling right about it.”
“I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.”

Source : John Hay (1871). “Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces”, p.16
“For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.”

Source : "19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture", Sotheby's (Firm), p. 123, 1994.

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