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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
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William Temple
diplomat
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1760 – 1823
William Temple Franklin, known as Temple Franklin, was an American diplomat and real estate speculator who is best known for his involvement with the American diplomatic mission in France during the American Revolutionary War. Beginning at the age of 16, he served as secretary to his grandfather Benjamin Franklin, who negotiated and agreed to the Franco-American Alliance.
All Quotes by William Temple
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
— William Temple
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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
— William Temple
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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
— William Temple
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All the precepts of Christianity agree to teach and command us to moderate our passions, to temper our affections towards all things below; to be thankful for the possession, and patient under the loss whenever he that gave it shall see fit to take away.
— William Temple
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Whoever converses much among the old books, will be something hard to please among the new.
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
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You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
— William Temple