"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts."
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Source: A Daughter of Eve. Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.
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