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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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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Balzac
Horace de Saint- Aubin
Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
Lord R'Hoone
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Ūnūrīh dī Balzāk
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Onore de Bal'zak
Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
Honore de Balzak
de. Balzac
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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.
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Vivacity is the health of the spirit.
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France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.
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We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
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Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.
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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]
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In a husband, there is only a man in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
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