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"I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly."

— Marie Antoinette

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It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness.

Pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

"No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently."

"The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief."

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