“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better.”

—  Robert Burton , book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 1, subsection 5, The last and best Cure of Love-Melancholy, is to let them have their Desire.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

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