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Mother Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind;…
- The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone.…
- Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
- Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
- A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
- The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective…
- Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
- ...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
- You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals…
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