Honore de Balzac Quotes
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.
Citations
Balzac, Honoré de. The Physiology of Marriage. Privately Printed, 1904, p. 215.
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