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In 1935 [[Will Rogers]] remarked:
 
In 1935 [[Will Rogers]] remarked:
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:Mother's Day, it's a beautiful thought, but it's somebody's hurtin' conscience that thought of the idea. It was someone who had neglected their mother for years, and then they figured out: I got to do something about Momma. And knowing that Momma was that easy, they figured, "we'll give her a day, and it will be all right with Momma." Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364. See?<ref>Will Rogers on 12 May 1935, as cited in Frank, Catherine, (2003) ''Quotations for All Occasions,'' Columbia University Press, [http://books.google.com/books?id=_HX0Xyq3ktEC&pg=PA26&ots=WP8VLTGdNI&sig=d4WJZS0aGMgT-zZYhpuVrZ_LyeU#PPA27,M1 p. 26]</ref><ref>If Rogers was not speaking figuratively when he referred to the person who "thought up the idea," then he was being unfair to Anna Jarvis, who was devoted to her mother and stayed with her mother long into her own adulthood.</ref>
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:Mother's Day, it's a beautiful thought, but it's somebody's hurtin' conscience that thought of the idea. It was someone who had neglected their mother for years, and then they figured out: I got to do something about Momma. And knowing that Momma was that easy, they figured, "we'll give her a day, and it will be all right with Momma." Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364. See?<ref name=quotes>Frank, Catherine, (2003) ''Quotations for All Occasions,'' Columbia University Press, [http://books.google.com/books?id=_HX0Xyq3ktEC&pg=PA26&ots=WP8VLTGdNI&sig=d4WJZS0aGMgT-zZYhpuVrZ_LyeU#PPA27,M1 p. 26: Will Rogers and Anna Jarvis quotations]</ref><ref>If Rogers was not speaking figuratively when he referred to the person who "thought up the idea," then he was being unfair to Anna Jarvis, who was devoted to her mother and stayed with her mother long into her own adulthood.</ref>
    
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