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— Freya Stark"Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body."
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Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
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