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“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”

Honore de Balzac · Marriage

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Honore de Balzac

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Business

Honore de Balzac

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Great

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Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.

Death

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Great