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Balzac: Tough to get BIGFED in Second Empire France

If you have no patronage you will rot in a provincial court....
bright hilarious hall
  08/26/14
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big fuchsia corner
  08/26/14
oh man this was an UNDERRATED POST on my part
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multi-colored water buffalo mexican
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Holy shit not flame: https://books.google.com/books?id=yQ...
gaped twinkling uncleanness depressive
  04/18/15
Lulz, I've been reading Balzac myself the last few weeks. I ...
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  04/18/15
jesus thats a good paragraph
Bronze Resort
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Titillating theater stage knife
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Holy shit
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nudist judgmental brunch
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Titillating theater stage knife
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smoky hairy legs
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big-titted coffee pot space
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XO Balzac
Vigorous high-end roast beef
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Que le bon Dieu me benisse
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Date: August 26th, 2014 8:38 PM
Author: bright hilarious hall

If you have no patronage you will rot in a provincial court. At thirty you will be a magistrate on 1,200 francs a year...at forty you will marry some miller's daughter with about 6,000 livres in rent. Thank you. If you have a patron you will become a procureur du roi at thirty, with 1,000 écus salary and you will marry the mayor's daughter. If you make one or two political gestures...you might be a procureur général at forty, and a deputy.

But I should inform you that there are only twenty procureurs généraux in France and 20,000 competitors for the post.

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Date: August 26th, 2014 8:39 PM
Author: big fuchsia corner

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Date: April 18th, 2015 10:32 PM
Author: bright hilarious hall

oh man this was an UNDERRATED POST on my part

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Date: April 18th, 2015 10:37 PM
Author: multi-colored water buffalo mexican



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Date: April 18th, 2015 10:39 PM
Author: gaped twinkling uncleanness depressive

Holy shit not flame:

https://books.google.com/books?id=yQrXaL4ojpAC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=If+you+have+no+patronage+you+will+rot+in+a+provincial+court.&source=bl&ots=g_2a9IWlXa&sig=PzyDmyLSD_KwBRwxx8ALy2-fW54&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QxUzVdPdGPiKsQTu4YGAAg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=If%20you%20have%20no%20patronage%20you%20will%20rot%20in%20a%20provincial%20court.&f=false

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Date: April 18th, 2015 10:56 PM
Author: Gay sticky menage cuckold

Lulz, I've been reading Balzac myself the last few weeks. I actually just finished Father Goriot today. It reminded me of Crime and Punishment and Great Expectations.

Speaking to a law student:

"And, then, what will you do? Shall you begin to work? Work, or what you understand by work at this moment, means, for a man of Poiret’s calibre, an old age in Mamma Vauquer’s lodging-house. There are fifty thousand young men in your position at this moment, all bent as you are on solving one and the same problem — how to acquire a fortune rapidly. You are but a unit in that aggregate. You can guess, therefore, what efforts you must make, how desperate the struggle is. There are not fifty thousand good positions for you; you must fight and devour one another like spiders in a pot. Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague. Honesty is nothing to the purpose. Men bow before the power of genius; they hate it, and try to slander it, because genius does not divide the spoil; but if genius persists, they bow before it. To sum it all up in a phrase, if they fail to smother genius in the mud, they fall on their knees and worship it. Corruption is a great power in the world, and talent is scarce. So corruption is the weapon of superfluous mediocrity; you will be made to feel the point of it everywhere."

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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:37 PM
Author: Bronze Resort

jesus thats a good paragraph

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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:39 PM
Author: Titillating theater stage knife



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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:41 PM
Author: House-broken yarmulke

Holy shit

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Date: June 8th, 2019 2:52 PM
Author: nudist judgmental brunch



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Date: June 8th, 2019 3:02 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle purple tanning salon cumskin

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Date: November 27th, 2017 5:56 PM
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Date: November 27th, 2017 5:57 PM
Author: Titillating theater stage knife



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Date: November 28th, 2017 11:43 PM
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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:41 PM
Author: big-titted coffee pot space



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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:41 PM
Author: Vigorous high-end roast beef

XO Balzac

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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:42 PM
Author: Mentally Impaired Misanthropic Brethren

Que le bon Dieu me benisse

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Date: June 8th, 2019 2:48 PM
Author: marvelous clear spot indirect expression



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Date: May 1st, 2022 8:41 PM
Author: Mentally Impaired Misanthropic Brethren



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