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Honore de Balzac Quotes

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac

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Topic:
Equality Quotes
Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
French Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
May 20, 1799
Date of Death:
August 18, 1850
Nationality:
French
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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