Without money there's not a particle of happiness.
 Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet (1834). copy citation

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Author Honoré de Balzac
Source Eugénie Grandet
Topic happiness money
Date 1834
Language English
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Note Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Weblink https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A9nie_Grandet

Context

“As soon as he came in, the two women wished him a happy New Year,—his daughter by putting her arms round his neck and caressing him; Madame Grandet gravely and with dignity. "Ha! ha! my child," he said, kissing his daughter on both cheeks. "I work for you, don't you see? I think of your happiness. Must have money to be happy. Without money there's not a particle of happiness. Here! there's a new napoleon for you. I sent to Paris for it. On my word of honor, it's all the gold I have; you are the only one that has got any gold. I want to see your gold, little one." "Oh! it is too cold;” source