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“My child! I'll go with you. You've got a mother.”
Voice: Fictional character · Mrs. Tulliver
Mrs Tulliver’s immediate decision to accompany Maggie turns motherhood into concrete solidarity when her daughter expects rejection and isolation.
Source note: The Mill on the Floss, Book VII, Project Gutenberg #6688. Mrs Tulliver responds after Maggie returns under public condemnation.
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“you mustn't think o' running away from father. What 'ud father do without his little wench?”
Voice: Fictional character · Mr. Tulliver
Mr Tulliver answers a child’s impulse to run away by stressing reciprocal attachment: Maggie matters to her father as much as she depends on him.
Source note: The Mill on the Floss, Book I, Project Gutenberg #6688. Mr Tulliver speaks to Maggie; dialect and fictional voice are retained rather than normalized into authorial advice.
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“My mother gave it to me; and when you read it try to believe that neither of your mothers will ever forget you.”
Voice: Fictional character · Jo Bhaer
A book passed from one mother to another generation becomes a symbol of continuing care, linking memory, reading and the idea of maternal presence across absence.
Source note: Jo's Boys, Chapter 4, Project Gutenberg #3499. Mrs Jo gives Dan a book that came from her own mother and speaks of both maternal bonds.
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“Charity suffereth long, and is kind.”
Love is defined partly through patience and kindness, shifting the idea from emotion alone toward repeated behavior under strain.
Source note: 1 Corinthians 13:4 in the King James Version; this is the opening clause of the verse.
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“Oh Floy, take me home, and never leave me!”
Voice: Fictional character · Paul Dombey
Paul’s appeal to Florence makes his sister and home inseparable sources of safety and affection during his decline, intensifying the novel’s sibling bond.
Source note: Dombey and Son, Chapter 16, Project Gutenberg #821. The words are associated with the dying child Paul and his sister Florence; they are fictional dialogue, not Dickens autobiography.
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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”
Ruskin presents affection toward children as relational rather than one-way: care given to a child can be met with trust, warmth and generosity in return.
Source note: The Crown of Wild Olive, Lecture I, “Work,” Project Gutenberg #26716, printed page 41. Ruskin places the sentence inside a Victorian Christian discussion of what he calls the loving and generous character of “right childhood”; this collection preserves that historical moral framework rather than treating every surrounding prescription as modern child-development evidence.