| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5497 |
| QUOTATION: | A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist. The Vicomtesse de l’Estorade in a letter to the Baronne de Macumer, in Letters of Two Brides (Mémoires de Deux Jeunes Mariées), in La Presse (1841-1842), Souverain (1842), included in the Scènes de la Vie Privée in the Comédie humaine (1845, trans. by George Saintsbury, 1971). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Balzac Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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