Quote#Death
Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a…
Quote byJohn Buchan · 1875–1940
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. V, p. 145..
English (original)
Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.
— John Buchan
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