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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.”
Source: The Atheist's Mass
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.”
Source: Father Goriot
“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”
Source: The Elixir of Life
“A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.”
Source: The Muse of the Department