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Madeleine de Scudéry
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“The only rose without thorns is friendship.”
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“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
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“Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterward.”
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“Virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.”
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“A jealous man always finds more than he looks for.”
Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer
(1607 - 1701)
Most often seen as Mademoiselle de Scudéry.