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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

Honore de Balzac

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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