There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them. – Proverb

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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

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