Children are ... encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent. (Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues)

Children are ... encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

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