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This cockering justifies Dr. Johnson's bitter apology for primogeniture, "that it makes but one fool in a family."
Who can imagine that he can be guilty of discouraging severity towards his child, to whom he had used too much cockering [ indulgence in his life, and of whom he was so charitably careful and forgiving before his death?