"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.109, The Floating Press
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