"Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, Il faut aimer ce que l'on a."
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Thomas Corneille, L’Inconnu (ed. 1703), Nouveau Prologue (spoken by Crispin). Edouard Fournier, L'Esprit des Autres, 6th ed. (1881), pp. 192–3, observes that Bussy de Rabutin had quoted the lines nearly forty years before in writing to Mme. de Sévigné (23 May 1667), and their authorship is unknown. — King (1904), no. 2208
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Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
1618 – 1693
französischer Satiriker und Schriftsteller
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