If we consider women whose lot it is to inspire deep affection, we shall sometimes find them, not those who can most generously bestow, but those who… - Jean Ingelow
" "If we consider women whose lot it is to inspire deep affection, we shall sometimes find them, not those who can most generously bestow, but those who can most generously receive.
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About Jean Ingelow
Jean Ingelow (March 17, 1820 – July 20, 1897) was an English poet and novelist.
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Every right and natural responsibility of which you relieve a man, taking it on yourself, makes him less able to bear those responsibilities that nothing can relieve him of. If you could take all his duties from him, as we sometimes do, it would only make it certain that he would not then even do his duty by himself.
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