I firmly believe that the same thing would happen in nine families out of ten if the parents were merely to remember how they felt when they were you… - Samuel Butler

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I firmly believe that the same thing would happen in nine families out of ten if the parents were merely to remember how they felt when they were young, and actually to behave towards their children as they would have had their own parents behave towards themselves. But this, which would appear to be so simple and obvious, seems also to be a thing which not one in a hundred thousand is able to put in practice.