“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.”

—  Honoré de Balzac, book Une fille d'Ève

A quinze ans, ni la beauté ni le talent n'existent: une femme est tout promesse.
Source: A Daughter of Eve (1839), Ch. 5: Florine.

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