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And as you note, Hanna, the relative safety of today’s commercial infant formula does allow women, for the first time in history, to choose whether they will breast or bottle-feed.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2012

In the mean while, we will breast with them, rather than separate from them, every misfortune, save that only of living under a government of unlimited powers.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Most men are brave, and an army of brave men will breast great peril when God's lamp lights the field; but the stoutest heart dreads the darkness.

From The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories by Warman, Cy