Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has … - Sara Coleridge

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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

Sara Coleridge

Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has separated them by an almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.

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