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Alfred Noyes Quotes: Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.
         

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.


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