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• The more you judge, the less you love. -- Honore de Balzac
• Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. -- Honore de Balzac
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• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
  -- Honore de Balzac...
• Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. -- Honore de Balzac
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  with a husband it runs the other way. -- Honore de Balzac...