The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first … - Alexander Smith

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There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

Alexander Smith

The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.

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