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they are new Not only I do
Do you like them only because they are new ?' 'Not only — I do not like playthings only because [154] they are new: but Bell does , I believe—for that puts me in mind—Do you know, mother, she had a great drawer full of old playthings that she never used, and she said that they were good for nothing, because they were old ; but I thought many of them were good for a great deal more than the new ones.
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth

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