Madeleine de Souvre Quotes

Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.

Madeleine de Souvre

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• Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
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