Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
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page 124 of 366 (33%)
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If he shows courage even in saving his own carcass from destruction, we praise him. There was never a man whose courage, or devotion, could be compared with that of a woman caring for her baby. The mother's love is unselfish, and it has no limit this side of the grave. You will find ONE man in a thousand who will risk his life for a cause. You will find a THOUSAND women in a thousand who will risk their lives for their babies. Everything that a man has and is he owes to his mother. From her he gets health, brain, encouragement, moral character, and ALL his chances of success. How poorly the mother's service is repaid by men individually, and by society as a whole! The individual man feels that he has done much if he gives sufficient money and a LITTLE attention to her who brought him from nothingness into life and sacrificed her sleep and youth and strength for his sake. Society, the aggregate of human beings, feels that its duty is |
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