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Orlando: A Biography Quotes

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. - Virginia Woolf (Orlando: A Biography Quotes)

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Source:(The Hogarth Press, ed. 1928), Chapter 4, Page 170
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Virginia Woolf - Book Quotes
  • Book: Orlando: A Biography
  • Writer: Virginia Woolf
  • Genre: Classics, Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction
  • Published: 1928
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