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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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• My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

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  Women, Advice, Chivalry

  "The Lily of the Valley". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1835.

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• Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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  Simplicity, Inspire, Disrespect

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• Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

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  Society, Genesis, Indulgence

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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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• 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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• A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

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  Beautiful, Husband, Mistake

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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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• When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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  Writing, Talent, Particular

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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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• 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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• Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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  Marriage, Party, Fighting

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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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• It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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  Poetry, Sorrow, Radiance

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

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  Honest, Praise, Said

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• No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

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  Heart, Inferiority, Rivals

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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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• Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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  Writing, Style, Thieves

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• Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

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  Past, Icy, Snuff

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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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• A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

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  Beautiful, Book, Victory

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• We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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  Book, Law, Rose

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• One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

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  Book, Men, July

  Honore de Balzac (1901). “Cousin Betty”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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