Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of themβ¦I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb. You canβt make a race horse of a pig. No, said Samuel, but you can make a very fast pig.
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