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I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
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Mountaineer
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Paris
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Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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