To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.


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To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.
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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
BIBLE
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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JOSH BILLINGS
In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
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I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal
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The less we know the more we suspect
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Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins
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Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
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Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer ...
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Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe...
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Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot
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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates
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Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man w...
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
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Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined
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Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy a...
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way
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Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's ...
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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
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Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
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The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
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the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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