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Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit. — Honore de Balzac

Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

In the original French

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui devore tout: l'habitude.

Honore de Balzac
Physiologie du Mariage · 1829
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Relationship challengesMarriage
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1829
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Honore de Balzac
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De Balzac, Honoré. Physiologie du mariage [Physiology of Marriage]. Paris, 1829, pt. 1, meditation 5, no. 47.

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