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It is necessary to be almost a genius to make a good husband.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
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In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
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A lover has all the virtues and all the defects that a husband has not.
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A lover is a herald who proclaims the merit, the wit, or the beauty of a woman: what does a husband proclaim?
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Honoré de Balzac
Born:
May 20, 1799
Died:
August 18, 1850
(aged 51)
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