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• It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
  -- Honore de Balzac...
• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
  -- Honore de Balzac...
• Behind every great fortune there is a crime. -- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
• Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. -- Honore de Balzac
• The more you judge, the less you love. -- Honore de Balzac
• Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. -- Honore de Balzac
• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. -- Honore de Balzac
• A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea. -- Honore de Balzac
• Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything
  familiarity. -- Honore' de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage 1829...