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Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice love without peace, or peace without love.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Pierre Beaumarchais
Age: 67 †
Born: 1732
Born: January 24
Died: 1799
Died: May 19
Author
Businessperson
Diplomat
Financier
Musician
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Publisher
Paris
France
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Beaumarchais
Love
Choice
Youth
Terrible
Choices
Peace
Live
Faced
Without
Unhappy
Heart
Harmony

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