When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
That's the way of a Father. To teach and inspire his children to do good of their own free will rather than fear of somebody else. That's the difference between a slave's Master and a child's Father.
- By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
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