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you mustn't think o' running away from father. What 'ud father do without his little wench?
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“you mustn't think o' running away from father. What 'ud father do without his little wench?”

George Eliot

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The Mill on the Floss
Date
1860
Local voice
Fictional character · Mr. Tulliver
Meaning

Meaning of “you mustn't think o' running away from father.…”

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.

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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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Mr. Tulliver speaks to Maggie in The Mill on the Floss.

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Voice: Fictional character · Jo Bhaer
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My child! I'll go with you. You've got a mother.
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“My child! I'll go with you. You've got a mother.”

George Eliot · The Mill on the Floss · 1860
Voice: Fictional character · Mrs. Tulliver
Meaning & context

Mrs Tulliver’s immediate decision to accompany Maggie turns motherhood into concrete solidarity when her daughter expects rejection and isolation.

Source details

The Mill on the Floss, Book VII, Project Gutenberg #6688. Mrs Tulliver responds after Maggie returns under public condemnation.

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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”

John Ruskin · The Crown of Wild Olive · 1866
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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 details

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Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
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“Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”

Galatians · King James Bible — Galatians 6:2 · 1611
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Mutual care is treated as an active responsibility: another person’s difficulty becomes something the community helps carry rather than merely observes.

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Galatians 6:2 in the King James Version, in a passage about restoring and supporting one another.

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