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Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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Beethoven is saying that teaching children to be good and moral is what truly brings them happiness, not giving them wealth. He emphasizes this point by sharing that his own life experience has shown him the truth of this idea.

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