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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.
         

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.


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