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We respect and praise the man selfishly working for himself.
If he builds up a great industry and a great personal fortune, we
praise him.
If he risks his life for personal glory and for praise, we praise
him.
If he shows courage even in saving his own carcass from
destruction, we praise him.
There was never a man whose courage, or devotion, could be
compared with that of a woman caring for her baby.
The mother's love is unselfish, and it has no limit this side of
the grave.
You will find ONE man in a thousand who will risk his life for a
cause.
You will find a THOUSAND women in a thousand who will risk their
lives for their babies.
Everything that a man has and is he owes to his mother. From her
he gets health, brain, encouragement, moral character, and ALL
his chances of success.
How poorly the mother's service is repaid by men individually,
and by society as a whole!
The individual man feels that he has done much if he gives
sufficient money and a LITTLE attention to her who brought him
from nothingness into life and sacrificed her sleep and youth and
strength for his sake.
Society, the aggregate of human beings, feels that its duty is
done when a few hospitals are opened for poor mothers, and a
little medicine doled out in cold-hearted fashion to the sick
child.
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