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“So for the mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sonnet to a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me (1797)

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About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772 – 1834

English Romantic poet, author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

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