"Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it."

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I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.

— George Washington