Octopus Quotes - Page 3

• There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

  Agnes Repplier

  Years, Letters, Twenties

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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