“A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.”

— Simon Soloveychik

Book 1, part 1, ch. 5
Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977–1986)

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Russia writer and philosopher 1930–1996

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