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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

~Honore De Balzac

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: May 20th, 1799

Died: August 18th, 1850

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