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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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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. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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