If I were hanged on the ...

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
 Rudyard Kipling

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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
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Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.
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