"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-George Eliot
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"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.“
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"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
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"The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible."
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