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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

~Honore De Balzac

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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The more one judges, the less one loves.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: May 20th, 1799

Died: August 18th, 1850

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