Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. ✨ Virginia…

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Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.783, Delphi Classics
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