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Say Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than…
- It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs…
- We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
- Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings…
- People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
- Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you…
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