Status Updates From Eight Cousins

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مش قادرة اكملها بجد...
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I remember hearing grandpa say that a love for good books was one of the best safeguards a man could have
This love of money is the curse of America, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust 210

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard 227

"The writers of these popular stories intend to do good, I have no doubt, but it seems to me they fail because their motto is, 'Be smart and you will be rich' instead of 'Be honest and you will be happy.'" 200

"You have laid out hard task for yourself...in trying to provide good reading for boys who have been living on sensation stories. It will be like going from raspberry tarts to plain bread and butter..." 210

A real sacrifice is giving up something you want or enjoy very much, isn't it? ... Doing it one's own self because one loves another person very much and wants her to be happy? ,,, And doing it pleasantly, and being glad about it, and not minding the praise if it doesn't come? 110

...though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have our little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed... 121