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• It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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• A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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• Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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

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• One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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

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• The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

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• Love is the poetry of the senses.

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• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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• Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

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• Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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• Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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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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• Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

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• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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Honoré de Balzac (137)

Birth:	20th May, 1799
Death:	18th August, 1850
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright

About

Honoré de Balzac was born in Tours, France. He was a French novelist and playwright. He wrote several novels include: Les Chouans, La Peau de chagrin, Adieu, La Vendetta, Colonel Chabert, Louis Lambert, Louis Lambert, Ferragus, Séraphîta, La Duchesse de Langeais, The Quest of the Absolute, Père Goriot, The Girl With the Golden Eyes, Le Lys Dans LA Vallee, Facino Cane, César Birotteau, La Rabouilleuse, Illusions perdues, Cousin Bette, Ursule Mirouët, Albert Savarus, Letters of Two Brides, Le Cousin Pons, Modeste Mignon, Honorine, and Le Cousin Pons. He wrote play, including Mercadet ou le faiseur.

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