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"Answers to Correspondents," Sketches New and Old (1875) - Twain, Mark | WIST Quotations
A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty; and inasmuch as babyhood spans but three short years, no baby is competent to be a joy “forever.” Ostensibly in response to a "Young Mother" who had written that her new baby was a…