Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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• Child
• Hearts

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• All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Child