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“There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Every time a child organizes and completes a chore, spends some time alone without feeling lonely, loses herself in play for an hour, or refuses to go along with her peers in some activity she feels is wrong, she will be building meaning and a sense of worth for herself and harmony in her family.”
—Barbara Coloroso (20th century)
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