"Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, il faut aimer ce que l'on a."
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Bussy Rabutin, Lettre ร Mme. de Sivigni (23 May, 1667); variant "n'a pas ce qu'on aime", by Thomas Corneille, L'lnconnu, Nouveau Prologue, Scene II (translation by Crispin); both reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 188.
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