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Pinocchio 3.38 · 3.38

“I ought to have thought of it sooner”

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— Sciagurato figliuolo! E pensare che ho penato tanto a farlo un burattino per bene! Ma mi sta il dovere! Dovevo pensarci prima!...—

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Geppetto’s lament: he laboured so hard to make a proper puppet, and this is his reward.

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