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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

John Ruskin
Children, Years, Literature
Time and Tide Letter 13 (1867)
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.