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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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  Monsters, Habit, Should

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• Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

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  Mother, Pardon

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• La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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  Thrones, Married, Slave

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• Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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  Husband, Government, Needs

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• A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

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  Block, Believe, Men

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• To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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  Drunk, Height, Salesman

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• In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

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  Jealousy, Fashion, Smart

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• The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

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  Art, Lying, Secret

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• Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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  Honest, Praise, Said

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• Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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  Love, Work, Men

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• The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

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  Self, Self Love, Turns

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• Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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  Men, Stupidity, Feelings

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• A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

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  Occupation, Twins, Born

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• The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

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  Men, Despair, Sauntering

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• When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

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  Women, Talking, Storm

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• For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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  Men, Cities, World

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• Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

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  Girl, Mind, Suffering

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• Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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  Art, Science, Thoughtful

  Honore De Balzac (2011). “Louis Lambert”, p.36, The Floating Press

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• My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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  Writing, Tables, My Thoughts

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• In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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  Painting, Deals, Huge

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• Nothing about me surprises me.

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  Surprise, Surprise Me

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• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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  Funny, Money, Tired

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons”, p.772, The Floating Press

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• At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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  Beauty, Promise, Literature

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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  People, Drink, Pleasure

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• How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

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  Half, Want, Comfort

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