A Quote by Honore de Balzac

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Honore de Balzac

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Being Ease Good Greater Ill Impediment Nothing Others Terms Than Yourself

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Honore de Balzac
French - Novelist
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

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