Balzac

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    Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)