I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Rudyard Kipling Quote
“Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.”
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