It is a fearful responsibility, the exercise of influence : let our own conduct bring its own consequences - we may well meet the worst; not so when we have led another to pursue any given line of action : if they suffer, how tenfold is that suffering visited on ourselves! (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

It is a fearful responsibility, the exercise of influence : let our own conduct bring its own consequences - we may well meet the worst; not so when we have led another to pursue any given line of action : if they suffer, how tenfold is that suffering visited on ourselves!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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