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Women who don’t marry wither up – they wither up like aspidistras in back-parlour windows; and the devilish thing is that they don’t even know that they’re withering.

Source:(Secker & Warburg, ed. 1969), Chapter V, Section I, Page 304
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  • Book: A Clergyman's Daughter
  • Writer: George Orwell
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Published: 1935
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