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Quote by Honore de Balzac

“Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.”

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In this classic work, the protagonist, Bette, a shrewd and ambitious woman, manipulates and schemes her way into the upper class, revealing the corrupting influence of wealth and power on human nature. more

Author

Honore de Balzac

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

“The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.”

Children Home Running School Streets Safe Shame Dare Practicals Tolerate Safe Places

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.”

Parent Moral Becoming Standards Sacred Minimum Maintaining Becoming A Parent Moral Society

Author:Andrew Vachss

“If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.”

Ifs Children Written My Children

Book:Dance on the earth: a memoir

Source: Dance on the earth: a memoir

“Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.”