“The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 53.
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“The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 53.
“We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 51.
Melissa Ladd Teed, Domesticity and Localism: Women's Public Identity in Nineteenth-Century Hartford, Connecticut (1999).
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 324.