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But in its essence friendship seems to consist more in giving than in receiving
affection: witness the pleasure that mothers take in loving their children. Some mothers
put their infants out to nurse, and though knowing and loving them, do not ask to be loved
by them in return, if it be impossible to have this as well, but are content if they see
them prospering; they retain their own love for them even though the children, not knowing
them, cannot render them any part of what is due to a mother.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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