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Excerpt from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls, or Success and How to Win It: Being a Vast Treasury of the Noblest Truths and Wisest Maxims for the Instruction and Self-Improvement of the Young; Showing the True Aims and Objects of Life
Book I. Starting right; or, the influence OF home - A. Well-known author says: It is the Home that makes the Nation. With equal truth we may -say, 'it is the Home that makes the grandest men and women. Here is where ideal character is fashioned. And no work can possess greater value than the one that faithfully describes the true Home and pictures it as the sweetest type of heaven. The reader finds in these glowing pages a beautiful tribute to-parental Influence. Like an angel of light appears the devoted mother, that uncrowned queen, of whom it has been truly said: The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. The Force of Example is vividly portrayed. Says quaint Ben Franklin: None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. The reader learns how true it is that noble examples stir us up to noble actions. This, and all the other subjects treated in this volume, are so forcibly presented and so strikingly illustrated that the work has an irresistible charm to every reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
