"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.48, The Floating Press
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