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Makes Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
- Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
- The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it…
- Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws;…
- We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
- Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these…
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