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How vastly important is it, then, for mothers to have a higher regard for their duties—to feel deeply the immense responsibilities that rest upon them! It is through their ministrations that the world grows worse or better.

— Timothy Shay Arthur

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The gratification of one desire only makes way for another still more exacting.

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