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Ninon de Lenclos: We should take...

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We should take care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day.

Source: Correspondence authentique de Ninonde Lenclos, ed. Emile Colombey, 1886.
-- Ninon de Lenclos, (Nov 10 1620-1705), French society figure, courtesan; Her beauty and wit attracted famous men of the day; wrote La Coquette Vengee, 1659.


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