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“Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.”
Harm is especially painful when our own choices, tools, or contributions helped create the conditions that made the loss possible.
Source note: Moral printed after “The Oak and the Woodcutters”; the oak laments wedges made from its own branches.