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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
Honore de Balzac
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Honore de Balzac
Age: 52 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 20
Died: 1851
Died: August 19
Art Critic
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Balzac
Horace de Saint- Aubin
Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
Lord R'Hoone
Ônôrē de Balzaq
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Honoreé De Balzac
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Un Jeune ceélibataire
Lord O'Rhoone
Ūnūrīh dī Balzāk
R'Hoone
Onore de Bal'zak
Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
Honore de Balzak
de. Balzac
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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.
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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.
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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?
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People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
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Resignation is a daily suicide.
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For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.
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Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.
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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.
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