Marie Antoinette/marriage To Louis - 1770%e2%80%931793

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    History should be written as philosophy.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
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    With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night
    That somehow the right is the right
    And the smooth shall bloom from the rough:
    Lord, if that were enough?
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