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Like and like and like--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Waves, p.119, Virginia Woolf
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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas, p.23, Oxford U … ▶
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