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Home Children Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Polly, May 29, 2013

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

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