The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it w — Mark Twain
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it w — Mark Twain
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it w — Mark Twain
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it w — Mark Twain
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it w — Mark Twain
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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

— Mark Twain
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