Nothing that grieves us can be called little by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. (Mark Twain)

Nothing that grieves us can be called little by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Mark Twain

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