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. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.

Source: Letter to M. de Coulanges, Letters of Madame de Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends, 1811.
-- Marie de Sevigne, (Feb 5 1626-1696), French diarist; She was a prolific correspondent whose 1700 letters to her daughter reflected the social history of the reign of Louis XIV.

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