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• Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other. -- 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...
• The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
  -- Honore DeBalzac...
• The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutang trying to play the violin. -- Honore DeBalzac
• A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second
  with a husband it runs the other way. -- Honore de Balzac...
• Believe everything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. -- Honore DeBalzac
• As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of ties.
  If anyone thinks that this mesh of a net is an independent, isolated thing, he is mistaken....
• He who laughs last thinks slowest!
• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
  -- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)...