Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
("The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie")
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One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
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Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
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