But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?

Marie Antoinette

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Ingrid shrugged...like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants.

Peter Abrahams

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The places that once knew [Marie Antoinette] now know her forever.

Grace Greenwood

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Il n'est pas nécessaire de vivre.
Il est nécessaire de naviguer.

Will Bashor

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As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!

Antonia Fraser

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No one really does know how to have fun here at all. It is all etiquette.

Kathryn Lasky

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We dug the asparagus, and tonight Aunt Charlotte cooked it for me herself with butter and melted cheese. I ate a whole plateful and drank half the brown jug of sweet milk. Then I had two slices of the thick coarse-grain bread that Aunt and the nuns make fresh every day.

Kathryn Lasky

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Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.

Kathryn Lasky

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She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.

Kathryn Lasky

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What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.

Kathryn Lasky

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