Great Throughts Treasury
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Madame de Rieux, Virginie de
French Author
"There is in all of us an impediment to perfect happiness, namely, weariness of what we possess, and a desire for what we have not."
"Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness."
"One must be a woman to know how to revenge."