“A man who was not trained, in childhood, to self control, is hopelessly a child in his combat with himself; and he can never regain the vantage ground which his childhood gave him, in the battle which then opened before him, and in the thick of which he still finds himself. It is in a child’s earlier struggles with himself that help can easiest be given to him, and that it is of greatest value for his own developing of character.”
Another quote from later in the book:
“The loss of self-control is for the time being an utter loss of power for the control of others.“
~H. Clay Trumbull, Hints on Child-Training
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