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Quotation from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas
“a woman who has truly loved is always young, and that the bloom of the girl of twenty years ever lies concealed in some secret cloister of the heart”
Ten Years Later, Chapter XVII, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation
The queen-mother, having persuaded Buckingham to leave France, remembers her own past love for his father.
Citation: "a woman who has truly loved is always young, and that the bloom of the girl of twenty years ever lies concealed in some secret cloister of the heart" — Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years Later, Chapter XVII, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation. (id dumas-ten-years-later-q5)
