"Mes avis sur vos relations avec les femmes sont aussi dans ce mot de chevalerie : Les servir toutes, n'en aimer qu'une."
— Honoré de Balzac

January 1, 1970

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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one." — Part II: First Love, as translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley