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Remember that every son had a mother
whose beloved son he was,
and every woman had a mother
whose beloved son she wasn't.
(Marge Piercy (20th century), U.S. writer. "Doing It Differently," Circles on the Water (1892).)
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Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.
(Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826-1887), British writer, poet. "Young and Old.")
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life.
(Unknown.)
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Who dreams of a son,
save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son?
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Thetis.")
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Man's pity for himself, or for his son,
Always premising that said son at college
Has not contracted much more debt than knowledge.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Don Juan.
MOS. The Poems of Byron. Paul E. More, ed. (1933) Houghton Mifflin.)
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Instruct
Your son, whirling between two wars,
In the Gemara of your gentleness,
(Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (b. 1905), U.S. poet. Father and Son (l. 26-28). . .
Contemporary American Poetry. A. Poulin, Jr., ed. (4th ed., 1985) Houghton Mifflin Company.)
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I'm a bad son. Is it the chromosomes, do you think, or is it England?
(David Mercer, British screenwriter, and Karel Reisz. Morgan (David Warner), Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment.)
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Every man is the son of his own works.
(Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish writer. Don Quixote, in Don Quixote, pt. 1, bk. 1, ch. 4, trans. by P. Motteux (1605).)
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