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Nationality of Author:
"French"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Metaphor Category:
"Writing"
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Date: 1787
"That frequently happens; and when once a false idea is impressed, it is very difficult to erase it, particularly at your age; as you are not yet capable of distinguishing the false from the true."
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)
Date: 1787
"They converse not, they open not their mouths, they are silent, but they engrave their principles on the heart in indelible characters, instead of inconsistently crowding them on the memory."
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)