A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption. - Guy de Maupassant

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A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

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About Guy de Maupassant

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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Pen Names: Joseph Prunier Guy de Valmont Maufrigneuse
Alternative Names: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant Maupassant
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And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

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