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Quotation from Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

“were I to cry ever so much, that would not make things better, I must try to make myself happy without a fortune.”

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (spoken by Beauty)

Beauty and the Beast, The merchant's ruin, trans. Anonymous English chapbook version

Portrait of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Beauty speaks to herself after the family loses its money and moves to the country.

Citation: "were I to cry ever so much, that would not make things better, I must try to make myself happy without a fortune." — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Beauty and the Beast, The merchant's ruin, trans. Anonymous English chapbook version. (id beaumont-beauty-and-the-beast-q1)

Portrait: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Unidentified painter, Public domain.

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