"If young people are educated properly, we have moral order; if not, vice and disorder prevail. Religion alone can initiate and achieve a true education."

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“With the works of charity we closed the doors of hell and open ourselves to the sky.”

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“Be cheerful, do good, and let the sparrows chirp.”

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“I'll wait for all my young people in heaven.”

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