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bear it well, because we love you; your children will always love you.
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“bear it well, because we love you; your children will always love you.”

George Eliot

Source
The Mill on the Floss
Date
1860
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Fictional character · Maggie Tulliver
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Maggie offers her father an assurance that bankruptcy does not cancel his children’s attachment, separating family love from public or financial failure.

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The Mill on the Floss, Book III, Project Gutenberg #6688. Maggie speaks to her father when he realizes the extent of the bankruptcy.

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Maggie speaks to her father during the family’s financial collapse.

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