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For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
Author
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Playwright
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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Alexandre Dumas
father
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père
Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Dumas
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Mother
Models
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Bond
Type
Continually
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Maintain
Wisdom
Union
Understandings
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Model
Tacit

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