Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert (1647–1733) writer from France
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 204
“One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.”
— Agatha Christie, book Death in the Clouds
Death in the Clouds (1935)
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