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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Approximate author period: c. 1910 AD · modern
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- Andre Gide
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- Approximate author period: c. 1910 AD · modern
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Andre Gide: recorded author lifetime 1869–1951. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47484 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is andre-gide; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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