“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.”
— Aurelius Augustinus, book Confessions
I, 7
Confessions (c. 397)
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