Why should we always keep up an air of indifference and coldness toward workmen, servants, children, only opening our mouths when we have some rebuke to give them? Is this charitable? Is this Christian?
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Let us show ourselves satisfied with their good will and make them understand that we love them. Not only will they serve us much better and attach themselves to us with true devotedness, but we shall thus gain their hearts, and it will then be easy for us to secure their fidelity to the duties of religion . . .
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The Art of Being Happy
