"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.29, Library of Alexandria
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