For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let…

Virginia Woolf
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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.834, Wordsworth Editions
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