The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home …

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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. ✨ Jean Paul (1866). Levana: or, The doctrine of education, p.17
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