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Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Maggie Smith

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Maggie Smith
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: December 28
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