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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles (1647 – 1733)


Better known as the Marquise de Lambert, was a writer with a particular interest in education and was the hostess of a famous salon.
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We live with [our defects] as we do with the perfumes that we wear, we do not smell them ; they only incommode others.
It is not always our faults that ruin us, but the manner of our conduct after we have committed them.
Marguenat de Courcelles
Shame is a secret pride; and pride is an error with regard to one's own worth, and an injustice with regard to what one has a mind to appear to others.




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