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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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Jealousy, Husband, Wife

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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Husband, Found Happiness, Wife

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

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Letting Go, Husband, Lying

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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Husband, Wife, Yoke
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.92, The Floating Press

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

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Husband, Betrayal, Want

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

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Husband, Wife, Lovers

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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Marriage, Husband, Genius

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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Husband, Men, Lovers
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.58, The Floating Press

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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Running, Husband, Thinking

When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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Husband, Hatred, Temptation

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

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Husband, Hate, Found Happiness

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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Husband, Wife, Lovers

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

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Mother, Husband, Father
"Analytical Studies".

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

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Marriage, Husband, Thinking

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

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Husband, Exit, Lovers

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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Husband, Lying, Player
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.7, The Floating Press

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

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Couple, Husband, Wife

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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Marriage, Fun, Husband

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

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Kings, Husband, Wife

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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Husband, Deceit, Sentimental

The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

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Love, Husband, Odes

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

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Beautiful, Husband, Mistake

Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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Husband, Government, Needs

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