Honore de Balzac
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All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.