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not indiſcreetly indulge them. I once heard a judicious father ſay, "He would treat his child as he would his horſe: firſt convince it he was its maſter and then its friend." But yet a rigid ſtyle of behaviour is by no means to be adopted; on the contrary, I wiſh to remark, that it is only in the years of childhood that the happineſs of a human being depends entirely on others—and to embitter thoſe years by needleſs reſtraint is cruel. To conciliate affection, affection muſt be ſhown, and little proofs of it ought always to be given—let them not appear weakneſſes, and they will ſink deep into the young mind, and call
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