Men value love more highly when they are no longer blinded by its influence.
 Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte of Bragelonne (1847). copy citation

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Author Alexandre Dumas
Source The Vicomte of Bragelonne
Topic love value
Date 1847
Language English
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“and why, moreover, I should not have been disinclined to afford him some consolation, or some good advice; he would have understood the step I had taken, and would have thought kindly of me for it. It is gratifying to be loved, you know. Men value love more highly when they are no longer blinded by its influence.” The marquise, bewildered and overcome by these cruel attacks, which had been calculated with the greatest nicety and precision, hardly knew what to answer in return; she even seemed to have lost all power of thought.” source