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“The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.”

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French novelist born on May 20, 1799, and died on August 18, 1850. Honore de Balzac is renowned for his profound insight and criticism of 19th-century French society, hailed as the 'father of modern fiction'. more

“There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.”

Source: Eugenie Grandet

“Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.”

Heart Virtue Charity

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“Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.”

Energy Charity

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“What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.”

Virtue Impossible

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