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Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

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One's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend — and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?

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It is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

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We had a beautiful dream and that was all … I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children. … I do not even have any regrets.

To the Chevalier Jarjayes on him persuading her to escape alone from the Towe

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Marie Antoinette

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Born: November 2, 1755

Died: October 16, 1793 (aged 37)

Bio: Marie Antoinette (born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen) was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor and Empress Maria Theresa.

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