A little scene of child-life has often seemed to me to contain
the most touching lesson for men. A child knows when it receives
a service from any one that it should say thank you. But, often,
when a child renders us a service, we forget to thank it.
After having waited in vain for the little word which should
be pronounced, it then itself says, “Thank you,” and goes its
way. The child has a feeling that something ought to happen
and does not; then he takes charge of it himself.--CHARLES
WAGNER, “The Gospel of Life.”
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