Honore de Balzac Quotes

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

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• A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Children
  • Stupid
  • Breast