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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
Approximate author period: c. 1834 AD · industrial
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- Anne Bronte
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- Approximate author period: c. 1834 AD · industrial
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Anne Bronte: recorded author lifetime 1820–1849. Source: https://edsverb.com/authors/anne-bronte (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is anne-bronte; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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