Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shrivelled innocence of an old maid?”
— Colette
Sido (1929)
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