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... baby , the manikin , the homunculus , as we may choose to call it , rules the world ; and yet in New York and Paris they tell us babies are going out of fashion ; and in baby - loving England , too , there are certain classes who regard ...
... baby , the manikin , the homunculus , as we may choose to call it , rules the world ; and yet in New York and Paris they tell us babies are going out of fashion ; and in baby - loving England , too , there are certain classes who regard ...
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... babies have some hair on their heads , for Sir John Falstaff is careful to tell us " that he was born about three of the clock in the afternoon , with a white head . " All babies delight in " slobbering ; " toothless gums , eyes without ...
... babies have some hair on their heads , for Sir John Falstaff is careful to tell us " that he was born about three of the clock in the afternoon , with a white head . " All babies delight in " slobbering ; " toothless gums , eyes without ...
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... baby has no more brains than a billiard ball , a mother's love will believe that it is the head of a Solon . For dumb children crow and gurgle , and make inarticulate noises . Babies even conceal deafness , because we hope that they are ...
... baby has no more brains than a billiard ball , a mother's love will believe that it is the head of a Solon . For dumb children crow and gurgle , and make inarticulate noises . Babies even conceal deafness , because we hope that they are ...
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... resumes its empire again in the grave , does not , as we have hinted , last long . The babies of the poor are perhaps as well off as any ; not perhaps a workhouse brat , nor the infant of the starving tramp 16 THE BETTER SELF .
... resumes its empire again in the grave , does not , as we have hinted , last long . The babies of the poor are perhaps as well off as any ; not perhaps a workhouse brat , nor the infant of the starving tramp 16 THE BETTER SELF .
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... baby is ruthlessly deprived . Then , again , the children of the wealthy are turned over to the nurses ; and nurses ( patient , good creatures as some of them are ) are not so good as mamma ; for woman , splendid as she is in intellect ...
... baby is ruthlessly deprived . Then , again , the children of the wealthy are turned over to the nurses ; and nurses ( patient , good creatures as some of them are ) are not so good as mamma ; for woman , splendid as she is in intellect ...
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