We live with [our defects] as we do with the perfumes that we wear, we do not smell them ; they only incommode others. (Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert)

We live with [our defects] as we do with the perfumes that we wear, we do not smell them ; they only incommode others.

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

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