"Un homme ne peut se marier sans avoir étudié l'anatomie et disséqué une femme au moins."
— Honoré de Balzac

January 1, 1970

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A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman. — Part I, Meditation V: Of the Predestined, aphorism XXVIII