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We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

Source: Letters of Madame de Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends, 1811.
-- Marie de Sevigne, (Feb 5 1626-1696), French diarist; She was a prolific correspondent whose 1700 letters to her daughter reflected the social history of the reign of Louis XIV.

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