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Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...
Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...
Approximate author period: c. 1899 AD · industrial
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- Edith Wharton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1899 AD · industrial
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