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“Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?”

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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

“According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.”

Men Made Different Difficult Differences Environment Sea Society Poet Type Soldier Ass Variety Priests Lions Sheep Sailor Crow Statesmen Workmen Calves Zoology

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“No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.”

Society Protect Creatures Victim Pity Scorn

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“People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.”

People Society Climbs

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“Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.”

Interest Levels Society Ocean Disaster Rhythm Damage Resumes Devouring

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“The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.”

Social Secret Our Lives Society Stage Flower Summer Spring Fruit Profit Autumn Alchemy

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“We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.”

Answers Pleasure Fine Solitude Acknowledge Fine Things

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“Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.”

Wells Soul Space Extending Contracting

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