Honore de Balzac Quotes
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.
Honore de Balzac
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Charlie Chaplin
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Cameron Dallas
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Antony Garrett Lisi
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.
Honore de Balzac