It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de BalzacThe secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
Honore de BalzacGirls 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.
Honore de BalzacJournalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.
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