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Doe Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
- Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
- 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.
- The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
- Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world…
- If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself…
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