I shall be glad that I shall not have any property to leave to my boys, of whom I have two, but only a good character and a pride in themselves and a good education; but for my daughter I am going to scrape together as much as I can give her and as good an education as I can so that she shall take in the lesson which I first sought to announce as the text of my discourse, that she marry only when she chooses to marry and not because of circumstances.
Bill Taft: “I shall be glad that I shall not have any property to leave to my boys, of whom I have two, but only a good character…”
On the recordNovember 1, 1909
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Address to the Students of the State Institute and College in Columbus, Mississippi
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