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Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.
Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.
Approximate author period: c. 1824 AD · industrial
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- Honoré de Balzac
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- Approximate author period: c. 1824 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1799 to 1850; Wikidata Q9711, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9711 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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