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> [“Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of ego. Perhaps one can shed at this stage in life as one sheds in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/perhaps-middle-age-is-or-should-be-a-period-of-shedding-shells-the/)

[Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/)

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> [Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/perhaps-middle-age-is-or-should-be-a-period-of-shedding-shells-the-2/)

[Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/)

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