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• You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

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  Girl, Men, Devil

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• Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

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  Soul, Sorrow, Bed

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• He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

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  Funny, Dog, Reading

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• Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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  Pride, Men, Causes

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• A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

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  Heart, Despair, Costumes

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• No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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  Eye, Frozen, Made

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• The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

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  Children, Effort, Majestic

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• Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

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  Men, Yield, Order

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• When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

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  Pride, Animal, Earth

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• When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

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  Uncles, Niece, Palaces

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• There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

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  Book, Thinking, Skeletons

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Eugenie Grandet”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

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  Heart, Charity, Virtue

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• Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

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  Mother, Fashion, Sex

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• The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

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  Happiness, Heart, Men

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• Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

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  Love, Passion, Vanity

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• The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

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  Love, Husband, Odes

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• For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

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  Dark, Light, People

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• When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

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  Men, Self, Doe

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• When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

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  Horse, Heart, Intelligent

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• Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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  Secret, Unhappy, Links

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• The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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  Love, Selfish, Passion

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1841-1842.

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• Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

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  Smile, Motherhood, Tears

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.171, The Floating Press

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• A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

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  Mother, Strong, Prayer

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• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

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  Girl, Angel, Forgiving

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.92, Library of Alexandria

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• For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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  People, Mind, Noble

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