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You see, lad, when I was a boy, I thought everything my mother said and my father did, old-fashioned, and a bit ignorant-like; but when I was a man, I saw that, if I had started right off from where they set me down, I would ha' been farther ahead. To honour your father an' mother don't mean to stick by their chimbley-corner all your life, but to start from their front door and go foret.
'Many's the time in my life, he went on, speaking in a gravely reverent tone, 'I've fought to get my will in some things struck out blindly, as you might say; but there was always the firm Hand guiding me in His way, not my own. Even when this mishap befell me' Jerry touched his empty sleeve 'though I couldn't see it at the time, bein' so ignorant-like, it was all a-purpose for my good.
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