Balzac

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    Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)