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“I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.” quote by C.S. Lewis — Download Open image

““I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.””

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