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Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.
Source: The Little Virtures, 1962.
-- Natalia Ginzburg, (Jul 14 1916-1991), Italian author; She was the novelist of many family-slanted books, including The City and the House, 1987.