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Moment Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
- 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…
- Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
- Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
- A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and…
- He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the…
- However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and…
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