Excerpt from Character Training in Childhood
In the old tale of the Sleeping Beauty, all the fairies gathered around the cradle to bestow their gifts upon the newborn princess. But you remember that the royal parents had neglected to invite one fairy, who in revenge, laid a curse upon the innocent baby - a curse which fell upon her when she had attained the first bloom of girlish beauty.
This story, or some variation of it, is found in every language, for it is based upon a universal truth - the truth that we all come into this world with certain gifts and certain defects.
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