“How vastly important is it, then, for mothers to have a higher regard for their duties—to feel deeply the immense responsibilities that rest upon them! It is through their ministrations that the world grows worse or better.”

—  Timothy Shay Arthur

The Mother’s Rule; or, The Right Way and the Wrong Way (1856), Preface

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