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“When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.”

— Fenelon

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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