“As you must weigh and choose between your love
and filial duty, which will turn the scale?
She put aside all vows of love and troth—
a child first pays the debts of birth and care.”

—  Nguyễn Du, The Tale of Kieu

Source: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 601–604

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