• Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

  Richard Buckminster Fuller
  American poet, philosopher and inventor
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. knowledge
2. children
3. speaking
4. greatest
5. concern
6. virtue

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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. by : Richard Buckminster Fuller

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