My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he …

Charles Dickens
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My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades. ✨ Charles Dickens (1850). The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: With a frontispiece, from a drawing by Frank Stone, p.341
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My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades. ✨ Charles Dickens (1850). The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: With a frontispiece, from a drawing by Frank Stone, p.341

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