• 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
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910
  

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1. proportion
2. grieves
3. eternal
4. little
5. events
6. crown

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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. by : Mark Twain

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