Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness…

Charles Spurgeon
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Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention. ✨ Charles Spurgeon (2015). Select Works, p.358, Lulu Press, Inc
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Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention. ✨ Charles Spurgeon (2015). Select Works, p.358, Lulu Press, Inc

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