Lost Illusions: (Annotated with short biography)

by Honoré de Balzac

this chronicle of great small things.

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Among the various eccentricities of society, have you never noticed its erratic judgments and the unaccountable differences in the standard it requires of this or that man or woman? There are some persons who may do anything; they may behave totally irrationally, anything becomes them, and it is who shall be first to justify their conduct;

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In a word, a man loses his head not so much by thinking as by uttering thoughts.

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