"Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language."

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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

— Honore de Balzac