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than those children who have depended upon their father’s estate.
The children left to depend upon their own resources generally prize
their abilities, improve their privileges, and cultivate and direct their
faculties to accomplish a purpose in life. They frequently develop
characters of industry, frugality, and moral worth, which lie at the
foundation of success in the Christian life. Those children for whom
parents do the most, frequently feel under the least obligation toward
them.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:121-123
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