“Rockstone at the bottom of the river doesn't know the sun is hot.”
Those who are sheltered from hardship often fail to understand the suffering of others.
— Traditional Montserrat & Eastern Caribbean Wisdom, Montserrat
Source: Traditional West Indian Creole proverb, part of the shared English Creole oral tradition across the Caribbean including the Leeward Islands and Montserrat (see Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage), public-domain oral tradition
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