| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5498 |
| QUOTATION: | A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist. Then in vol. I, ch. IX, of the Comédie humaine (1845, trans. by George Saintsbury, 1971). Vandenesse, in A Daughter of Eve (Une Fille d’Eve), published with Massimilla Doni, Souverain (1839), first appeared in Le Siècle (1838-1839). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Balzac Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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