“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
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And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.