Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Rules of Prudence

All children should have some instruction given them in the conduct of human life, some necessary rules of prudence, by which they may regulate the management of their own affairs, and their behaviour towards their fellow-creatures. Where all other sorts of knowledge are conferred upon children, if this be wanting, they make but a contemptible figure in the world, and plunge themselves into many inconveniences.

Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: A Supplement to Logic, pg.328

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