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Quotation from Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
“there is only one safe way of taking things out of little children's eyes, and that is with your own soft wet tongue.”
Five Children and It, Chapter 3 (Project Gutenberg #778)
Jane remembers the nursery remedy when the Lamb gets sand and ginger-beer in his eyes.
Citation: "there is only one safe way of taking things out of little children's eyes, and that is with your own soft wet tongue." — E. Nesbit, Five Children and It, Chapter 3 (Project Gutenberg #778). (id five-children-and-it-q6)
Portrait: Nesbit, Unknown author, Public domain.
