Children need to learn how to do things which they do not want to do, when those things ought to be done. Older people have to do a great many things from a sense of duty. Unless children are trained to recognize duty as more binding than inclination, they will suffer all their lives through from their lack of discipline in this direction.

— Henry Clay Trumbull (1830–1903), Geistlicher, Militärkaplan, Sonntagsschulpionier und Autor

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