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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
- Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
between October 26, 1466 and July 12, 1536. He/she was a famous
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