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What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?

Guy de Maupassant
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories

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Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer, one of the fathers of the modern short story.

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Alternative Names: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant • Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Valmont • Joseph Prunier • Maupassant

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