My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract id…

Virginia Woolf
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My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.222, Delphi Classics
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