There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that eve…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, p.233
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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, p.233

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