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"Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.152, 谷月社
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