Quote#Children
The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your…
Quote byRichard Cecil · 1748–1810
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 324..
English (original)
The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.
— Richard Cecil
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