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The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.

Nathaniel Parker Willis
Children, Angel, Care
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.438
The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.