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Famous quotes containing the words child and/or left:

    Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone?
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 7:9.

    Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one’s self, so as to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)