Well, trials are the portion of mankind, and gardeners have their share, and in any case it is better to be tried by plants than persons, seeing that with plants you know that it is you who are in the wrong, and with persons it is always the other way about – and who is there among us who has not felt the pangs of injured innocence, and known them to be grievous?
-Elizabeth von Arnim
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