Honore de Balzac Quotes
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
Citations
Balzac, Honoré de. The Old Maid. Translated by James Waring, J.M. Dent & Co., 1898, p. 65.
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Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.