One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's t…

Virginia Woolf
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. ✨ Letter to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 4 July 1938
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