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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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