Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… natural remedy was thus to avoid contact with an enemy altogether. This is encapsulated in the advice that the French salonnière Madame de Pompadour wrote in her treatise Advice to a Female Friend , first translated into English in 1750. …
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