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61. We know of no blessing so great as the begetting of children that are endowed with understanding.

62. Behold the man whose children bear an unstained character : no evil will touch him in any of his seven reincarnations.

63. Children are the veritable riches of a man : for they pass to him by their own acts all the merits that they acquire.

64. Sweeter verily than ambrosia is the plain soup bespattered by the tender hands of one's own children.

65. The touch of children is the delight of the body: the delight of the ear is the hearing of their speech. Rh