Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

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    “O mother, mother, make my bed!
    O make it saft and narrow!
    Since my love died for me today,
    I’ll die for him tomorrow.”
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    Thank God! none of my children have an atom of poetry in their composition!
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    We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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