Quote#Self
Every right and natural responsibility of which you relieve a man,…
Quote byJean Ingelow · 1820–1897
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 15, p. 183..
English (original)
Every right and natural responsibility of which you relieve a man, taking it on yourself, makes him less able to bear those responsibilities that nothing can relieve him of. If you could take all his duties from him, as we sometimes do, it would only make it certain that he would not then even do his duty by himself.
— Jean Ingelow
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