"La science de la mère comporte des mérites silencieux, ignorés de tous, sans parade, une vertu en détail, un dévouement de toutes les heures."
— Honoré de Balzac

January 1, 1970

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Part I, ch. XLV