Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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