"The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure."
"Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few."
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Source: La Duchesse de Langeais. Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac (Complete works of Balzac) published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.
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