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Quote by Honore de Balzac

“Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.”

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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

“We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.”

Needs Mind Humans Wells Book Law Honor Rose University Entertainment Dues Former Code Latter Human Mind Instruction Reign Recreation Vines Olives Cannons Myrtle Justinian

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“A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.”

Dangerous Spread Naked Exhibits Skirts Nudity

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“The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.”

Men Greater Talent Originality Provinces Lunacy

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“In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.”

Mind Facts Silence Studios Painter Minors Penetrate Facts Of Life Hidden Meaning

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“Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.”

Subjects Paris Ugliness Whim Inexplicable Pretty Woman

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“Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.”

Ifs Answers Pleasure Greater

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“It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.”

Has Beens Poetry Difficult Pleasure Sorrow Radiance

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“Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.”

Poetry Born Journey Painful Regions Poetry Is

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