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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

~Honore De Balzac

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: May 20th, 1799

Died: August 18th, 1850

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