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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Poet
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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