“There are certain wives whose confinement makes sarcastic celibates smile.”

— Honoré de Balzac , book Physiology of Marriage

Il y a des femmes dont la grossesse fait sourire quelque célibataire sournois.
Part I, Meditation II: Marriage Statistics http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Physiology_of_Marriage/Part_1/Med_2
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