“Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.”

— Suzanne Curchod

Reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 195.

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French-Swiss salonist and writer 1737–1794

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