"Never promise a child what cannot be done, and never deceive him"
Konstantin Ushinsky

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"What a wonderful child you have! Is this a pretty boy or an ugly girl? "
Mikhail Zhvanetsky

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"Ungratefulness is the most infamous, but at the same time the most ordinary and most primordial is the ingratitude of children to their parents"
Luc Vovenarg

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"A more penetrating thinking, deeper wisdom is required for the upbringing of the child than for governing the state"
William Channing

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"The desire to create a happy life for a child with self-indulgence from infancy is perhaps unreasonable"
Victor Hugo

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"Some children love school so much that they want to stay in it all their lives. Scientists come out of them "
Hugo Steinhaus

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"Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain an artist, coming out of childhood "
Pablo Picasso

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"Every child is born unlearned. The duty of the parents is to teach the children "
Catherine II

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"The first tears of children are their requests; if not to beware, they soon become orders, they start by forcing themselves to help, and ending up with being forced to serve themselves "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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"Believe me: children love only strangers"
Alfred Musset

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"It happens, weak parents say about the misconduct of their children. No, it does not happen - it develops "
Maria-Ebner Eschenbach

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