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Things Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- 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…
- Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
- The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences…
- Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise,…
- 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.
- Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
- All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
- The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
- This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of…
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