Compensation Bill

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    In compensation for considerable disgust, despondency, and boredom—such as living in solitude without friends, books, duties, or passions necessarily entails—we are given those quarter-hours of deepest communion with ourselves and nature. Those who completely barricade themselves from boredom, barricade themselves from themselves as well: they will never get to drink the most refreshingly potent draught from the their own innermost fountain.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The house with no child in it is a house with nothing in it.
    Welsh proverb, as quoted in The Joys of Having a Child by Bill and Gloria Adler (1993)