The Little Black Boy, st. 4
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
“It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love.”
—
Zadie Smith
,
On Beauty
Unspecified edition, p. 54.
On Beauty (2005)
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