There is the blind confidence of youth, which is the blindness of young kittens, whose eyes have not yet opened on the world
 Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1841). copy citation

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Author Charles Dickens
Source Barnaby Rudge
Topic blindness youth
Date 1841
Language English
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“There is the connubial blindness, ma’am, which perhaps you may have observed in the course of your own experience, and which is a kind of wilful and self-bandaging blindness. There is the blindness of party, ma’am, and public men, which is the blindness of a mad bull in the midst of a regiment of soldiers clothed in red. There is the blind confidence of youth, which is the blindness of young kittens, whose eyes have not yet opened on the world; and there is that physical blindness, ma’am, of which I am, contrairy to my own desire, a most illustrious example. Added to these, ma’am, is that blindness of the intellect, of which we have a specimen in your interesting son, and which, having sometimes glimmerings and dawnings of the light, is scarcely to be trusted as a total darkness.” source