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Up Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
- A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
- In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
- 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,…
- Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in,…
- 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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