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Quote by Margaret Visser
Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction. – Margaret Visser

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The moment she had laid the child to the breast both became perfectly calm. – Isak Dinesen

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