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Marie Madeleine de la Fayette
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“Most mothers think that to keep young people away from lovemaking, it is enough never to mention it in front of them.”
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“One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it.”
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“You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing ...”
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“... I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.”
Marie Madeleine de la Fayette, French writer
(1634 - 1693)
Full name: Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne de la Fayette.