That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic …

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That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). Life, the Universe and Everything, p.128, Pan Macmillan
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That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). Life, the Universe and Everything, p.128, Pan Macmillan

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