Caesar said that!
Teeth
One of the most pleasant features about being born, as I conceive
it, is that we are born without teeth. I believe there have been
a few exceptions to this rule--Richard the Third, according to
the accounts, came into the world equipped with all his teeth and
a perfectly miserable disposition; and once in a while, especially
during Roosevelt years, when the Colonel's picture is hanging on
the walls of so many American homes, we read in the paper that a
baby has just been born somewhere with a full set, and even, as in
the case of the infant son of a former member of the Rough Riders,
with nose glasses and a close-cropped mustache. This, however, may
have been a pardonable exaggeration of the real facts. As I recall
now, it was reported in a dispatch to the New York Tribune from
Lover's Leap, Iowa, during the presidential campaign eight years
ago.
In the main, though, we are born without teeth. We are born
without a number of things--clothes for example--although Anthony
Comstock is said to be pushing a law requiring all children to be
born with overalls on; but teeth is the subject which we are now
discussing.
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