Quotemeal: Sep. 2nd, 1948

Thursday, September 2, 1948

"There is only one way to bring up a child in the way he should go and that is to travel that way yourself."
— Abraham Lincoln

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Illustration of Abraham Lincoln — "There is only one way to bring up a child in the way he should go and that is to travel that way yourself."

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