"If you please, I should like to have the flower-pot; that is, if you won't think me very silly, mamma."
"Why, as to that, I can't promise you, Rosamond; but when you have to judge for yourself you should choose what would make you happy, and then it would not signify who thought you silly."

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  • Edgeworth, Maria. "The Purple Jar." In [[The Parent's Assistant. 1796.