Henry Ward Beecher on children
Henry Ward Beecher170 quotes“That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.”
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Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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