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cause You do not understand said
why out of so many innumerable millions of conditions, all necessary, should one be singled out and ticketed ‘the cause’? ‘You do not understand,’ said he.
— from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson

Child you do not understand such
Child, you do not understand such matters.
— from Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1 by Ernst Eckstein


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