“A father's heart is nature's finest work.”
Antoine François Prévost (1697–1763) French novelist
Un cœur de père est le chef-d'œuvre de la nature.
Part 2, p. 205; translation p. 117.
L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)
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