She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
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Far From The Madding Crowd
by
Thomas Hardy
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Vanity Fair
by
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Aye, indeed! Hast been brought up at the Abbey then. I could read it from thy reddened cheek and downcast eye, Hast learned from the monks, I trow, to fear a woman as thou wouldst a lazar-house. Out upon them! that they should dishonor their own mothers by such teaching. A pretty world it would be with all the women out of it."
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The White Company
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle