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“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Phædra. Frag. 619.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bbeebdea2053ed5a298e263152690df54d6416ce50520d863849cdede558aac8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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