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By the time she was twenty-four, nearly all the girls who had when…
Quote byElizabeth von Arnim · 1866–1941
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Benefactress (1901), pp. 8–9, vol. 1, 1902, B. Tauchnitz.
English (original)
By the time she was twenty-four, nearly all the girls who had when she did were married, and she felt as though she were a ghost haunting the s of a younger generation.
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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