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COMTESSE DE GENLIS, STEPHANIE-FELICITE DU CREST DE SAINT-AUBIN
French educator and writer of memoirs
(1746 - 1830)

Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!
      - [Love]

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.
      - [Familiarity]

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?
      - [Judgment]

In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.
      - [Retrospection]

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.
      - [Books]

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.
      - [Sensibility]

Ugliness, after virtue, is the best guardian of a young woman.
      - [Ugliness]

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