Quote#Children
I think either parent would have looked amazed had any one pitied…
Quote byDinah Craik · 1826–1887
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: John Halifax, Gentleman (1856), Ch. 22.
English (original)
I think either parent would have looked amazed had any one pitied them for having a blind child. The loss—a loss only to them, and not to her, the darling!—became familiar, and ceased to wound; the blessedness was ever new.
— Dinah Craik
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