
“ Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch. ”
Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot (1835). copy citation
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1835
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English
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Translated by Ellen Marriage