I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only i…

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I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. ✨ Wilkie Collins (2015). Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins, p.31, e-artnow sro
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