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Quotes from Splendours and Miseries of Courtesans — Honoré de Balzac

1799–1850 France

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The law is good, it is necessary, its execution is poor, and the manners judge the laws based on the manner in which they are executed.

Splendours and Miseries of Courtesans (1838)

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