“ Without money there's not a particle of happiness. ”
Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet (1834). copy citation
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
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Source | Eugénie Grandet |
Topic | happiness money |
Date | 1834 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
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;”
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