Bonus:
Summary: Be reasonably jealous of your kids in the country and their projects/industry.
Commentary:
208. Be not fancifully Jealous: For that is Foolish; as, to be reasonably so, is Wise.
I don't think I've ever heard jealousy described as Wise before.
214. If we would amend the World, we should mend Our selves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
215. We are too apt to awaken and turn up their Passions by the Examples of our own; and to teach them to be pleased, not with what is best, but with what pleases best.
216. It is our Duty, and ought to be our Care, to ward against that Passion in them, which is more especially our Own Weakness and Affliction: For we are in great measure accountable for them, as well as for our selves.
I think this is a pretty concise parenting manual:
1. Be a better person to help your children be better.
2. Don't accidentally teach your children your
We get more "country good, city bad" I wonder what these classical writers would say about the suburbs. Probably bad.
232. As many Hands make light Work, so several Purses make cheap Experiments.
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235. Never give out while there is Hope; but hope not beyond Reason, for that shews more Desire than Judgment.
Figuring out which is which is the hard part.
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