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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

— Honoré de Balzac Letters of Two Brides (1841)

La science de la mère comporte des mérites silencieux, ignorés de tous, sans parade, une vertu en détail, un dévouement de toutes les heures.

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Part I, ch. XLV

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