This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it. (Charles Dickens)

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it.

Charles Dickens

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