How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eye…

Samuel Johnson
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How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives ✨ Samuel Johnson (1846). The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, p.85
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How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives ✨ Samuel Johnson (1846). The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, p.85

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