"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct."
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Source: The Wild Ass's Skin. Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1831.
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