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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Approximate author period: c. 1824 AD · industrial
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- Honore de Balzac
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- Approximate author period: c. 1824 AD · industrial
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Honore de Balzac: recorded author lifetime 1799–1850. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9711 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is honore-de-balzac; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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