“If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners...” – Danielle de Barbarac, Ever After ... Movie Quotes Database

[to Henry]

If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?

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