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Updated: July 11, 2025

By the ordinance of God, youth is made to be content with this outward and palpable life. The sunshine and the air-the flow of animal pleasures, encircled mysteriously with the guardianship of parents, and the love of friends-are sufficient for the child.

E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin - The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing