“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

—  Thomas Hardy , book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

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English novelist and poet 1840–1928

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