"It seemed proper indeed to crowd the pages with children, for in real life they run all over; the world is covered thickly with the prints of their little footsteps, though, as a rule, books written for grown-up people are kept almost clear of them."
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Jean Ingelow, in her Preface to the American edition of Fated to be Free (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1875), p. iv
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