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There is a want of self-restraint in this schoolgirlishness; and you ought not to be able to pick out a pair of great friends in general society, not merely because, if you could, it would show them to be absurd and underbred, but because it would mean that others were made to feel "left out."
Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby
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The bitterness of the Anemones, the sentimentality of the Violets, the schoolgirlishness of the Snowdrops, the domesticity of the Sweetpeas – all this tickles the palate of the adult, but does not belong to the plane of the normal child.
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Violets, the schoolgirlishness of the Snowdrops, the domesticity of the Sweetpeas -- all this tickles the palate of the adult, but does not belong to the place of the normal child.
The Art of the Story-Teller Marie L. Shedlock 1894
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(All the folksy charm of Sarah Palin except without the naïve schoolgirlishness.)
Newspaper Tree 2009
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