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My mother, with her excellent understanding, knew that prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.

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His love for his wife was not of the same nature. He loved her, no doubt, but without making of her one of those divinities which dazzle the acutest understanding, and prevent it from perceiving any imperfection, moral or personal in the beloved object.

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Madame Tallien was kind and obliging, but such is the effect on the multitude of a name that bears a stain, that her cause was never separated from that of her husband.
Of Thérésa Tallien (Princess of Chimay)

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Of Madame Letizia Bonaparte:
She was very ignorant, not only of our literature, but of that of her own country.
Letizia Bonaparte was the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte

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Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantes

Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantes

Born: November 6, 1784
Died: June 7, 1838 (aged 53)
Bio: Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès was a French writer. She was the spouse of French general Jean-Andoche Junot.
Known for:
  1. Memoirs of Napoleon, his court and family
  2. Memoirs of the Duchess D'Abrantès (1832)
  3. Memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon

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