confidence
and simplicity
"'It
always grieves me,' I observed,
… 'to contemplate the initation of children
into the ways of life,
when they are scarcely more than infants.
It checks their confidence and simplicity -
two of the best qualities that Heaven gives them -
and demands that they share our sorrows
before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.'"
- Charles Dickens
(The Old Curiosity Shop)
… 'to contemplate the initation of children
into the ways of life,
when they are scarcely more than infants.
It checks their confidence and simplicity -
two of the best qualities that Heaven gives them -
and demands that they share our sorrows
before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.'"
- Charles Dickens
(The Old Curiosity Shop)
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