A little Boston girl was encouraged by her parents to study so much that
her brain gave way, and she is now an idiot. This is a sad result, but
the parents must find some consolation in the thought that they have
made their daughter like themselves.
1489
It so falls out, that,
What we have we prize, not to the worth,
While we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
Why, then, we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us,
Whilst it was ours.
--_Shakespeare._
Note: Applicable to one's parents.
1490