“The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.”

—  Francis Bacon

The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Parents and Children

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