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knowledge of vice to those younger than themselves. Young children,
if left to themselves, learn the bad more readily than the good. Bad
habits agree best with the natural heart, and the things which they see
and hear in infancy and childhood are deeply imprinted upon their
minds; and the bad seed sown in their young hearts will take root and
will become sharp thorns to wound the hearts of their parents
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