"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."
— Hope

January 1, 1970

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., A Mother's Secret, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78