| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40661 |
| QUOTATION: | My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Hannah More (1745–1833), British writer, reformer, philanthropist. Letter, 1801, to the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Letters of Hannah More (1925). |
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