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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.
Honore de Balzac
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Honore de Balzac
Age: 52 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 20
Died: 1851
Died: August 19
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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
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