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That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
Poet
Harvest
Fields
Youth
Beauty
Left
Prudery
Scarecrow
Resembles
Survives

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