Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no lo…

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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. ✨ Lettres Persanes by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek), 1721.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. ✨ Lettres Persanes by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek), 1721.

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