A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw i…

Virginia Woolf
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. ✨ 1925 The Common Reader, 'The Modern Essay'.
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. ✨ 1925 The Common Reader, 'The Modern Essay'.

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