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Honoré de Balzac on Beauty

1799–1850 France

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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

A Daughter of Eve (1839)

Are not all young men ready to trust the promise of a pretty face and to infer beauty of soul from beauty of feature? An indefinable impulse leads them to believe that moral perfection must co-exist with physical perfection.

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