Honore de Balzac Quotes
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
Citations
Balzac, Honoré de. The Physiology of Marriage. Privately Printed, 1901, p. 145.
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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.