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I do not know why a girl should be expected to talk well till she is…

Quote byJean Ingelow · 1820–1897

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872), Ch. 12, p. 188..

English (original)

I do not know why a girl should be expected to talk well till she is at least twenty. There cannot be much in her, she may be prettily exacting, or charmingly modest, but her attractions must be personal, not intellectual.

— Jean Ingelow

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