Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ✨ C…

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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (1951). Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis
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