Youth's first acquaintance with sorrow is a terrible thing-before time has taught, what it will surely teach, that grief is our natural portion, at once transitory and eternal. But the first lesson is the severest-we have not then looked among our fellows, and seen that suffering is general ; and we feel as if marked out by fate for misery that has no parallel.
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