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...caution and thrift; he had to account every week for all the money he earned in household chores, was docked 1? for such delinquencies as being late to family prayers. From his Baptist mother. Laura Spelman Rockefeller, he absorbed a sense of piety and duty. Dancing, the theater, cardplay-ing and other frivolities were frowned on; at ten, young Rockefeller made a vow. which he never broke, to abstain from "tobacco, profanity and the drinking of any intoxicating beverages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILANTHROPY: The Modest Visionary | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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