“All women dote upon an idle man
Although their children need a rich estate.
No man has ever lived that had enough
Of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.”

— W.B. Yeats , book The Winding Stair and Other Poems

III, st. 1
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/

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“All women dote upon an idle man
Although their children need a rich estate.
No man has ever lived that had enough
Of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.”