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No one is excused for having children if it makes him or others lead a servile and ignoble life

Drawn from what Matthew Arnold said

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family Children, partners and inheritance: the peak experience, and what to hand on.

What Matthew Arnold actually said

  1. Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic (1822 to 1888)
    And as no man is to be excused in having horses or pictures, if his having them hinders his own or others' progress towards perfection and makes them lead a servile and ignoble life, so is no man to be excused for having children if his having them makes him or others lead this.

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