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1 quotation from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Train them to virtue; habituate them to industry, activity, and spirit. Make them consider every vice as shameful and unmanly. Fire them with ambition to be useful. Make them disdain to be destitute of any useful knowledge. Fix their ambition upon great and solid objects, and their contempt upon little, frivolous, and useless ones.— filed under Children