The mother is the child's ...

The mother is the child's supreme parent.
 Havelock Ellis

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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
 Havelock Ellis
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
 Havelock Ellis
The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.
 Havelock Ellis
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
 Havelock Ellis
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.
 Havelock Ellis