"It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being."

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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

— John Ruskin