“Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.”

L'amour qui naît subitement est le plus long à guérir.
Aphorism 13
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur

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L'amour qui naît subitement est le plus long à guérir.

Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur

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17th-century French writer and philosopher 1645–1696

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