Quotation by Honoré De Balzac

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist. Then in vol. I, ch. V, of the Comédie humaine (1845, trans. by George Saintsbury, 1971). Narrator, in A Daughter of Eve (Une Fille d'Eve), published with Massimilla Doni, Souverain (1839), first appeared in Le Siècle (1838-1839).
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