All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
The ends must justify the means.
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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