Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and childre…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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