The most familiar precepts are not always the truest. ✨ Marcel Proust …

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The most familiar precepts are not always the truest. ✨ Marcel Proust (1982). Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Vintage
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The most familiar precepts are not always the truest. ✨ Marcel Proust (1982). Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Vintage

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