I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without chi…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2008). Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works, Oxford Paperbacks
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2008). Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works, Oxford Paperbacks

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