There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind. ✨ Margaret Atwo…

Margaret Atwood
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There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1986). The Handmaid's Tale, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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