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• Behind every great fortune there is a crime. -- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
• The more you judge, the less you love. -- Honore de Balzac
• Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. -- Honore de Balzac
• A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second
  with a husband it runs the other way. -- Honore de Balzac...
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• 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...
• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
  -- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)...
• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
  -- Honore de Balzac...