"Our neglect of minor duties and virtues is particularly injurious to the minds of our families. If they see us peevish, vacillating, volatile, petulant or inconsistent in our daily conduct, they will not give us credit for those higher qualities which we may possess and those superior duties which we may be more careful to fulfill. Our greater qualities will do them little good, while our lesser but incessant faults do them much injury.
Seeing us so defective in the daily course of our behavior at home, though our children may obey us because they are obliged to it, they will neither love nor esteem us enough to be influenced by our instruction or advice."
(Hannah More, "Practical Piety")
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