Honore de Balzac Quotes
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
Citations
Balzac, Honoré de. Cousin Bette. Translated by James Waring, J. M. Dent, 1897, p. 95.
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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.