No one has understood this opium of poverty. The lottery, all-powerful fairy of the poor, bestowed ...
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"You ought," said Madame Descoings to Philippe during the last days of December, "you ought to get ...
Philippe was one of the faithful Bonapartes of the cafe Lemblin, that constitutional Boeotia; he ac...
himself persecuted; and the effect of that idea is to make persons who are unintelligent persecutor...
may be characterized as not vice, only the other side of it. The princess began by sending for d'Ar...
her, insensibly, to her slave. At last, however, Diane grew impatient with an Epictetus of love; an...
and daughter placed as we then were. But I braved them all, my mother, my husband, the world, by pu...
during the first half-hour of this visit. Diane d'Uxelles cautiously avoided, as she would the wear...
beard, whom I have often seen at the opera, and who was leading the attack, threw up the man's gun,...
bear extreme felicity. "Daniel, they have calumniated me, and you have avenged me!" she cried, ris...
d'Arthez. Our man of genius is by nature, it seems, a savage; he fears women, and has never loved! ...
A Prince of Bohemia Tillet, Ferdinand du Cesar Birotteau The Firm of Nucingen The Middle Classes...
The beginning of this passion was, as in the case of almost all deep thinkers, an idea. Looking at ...
The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac Tranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Mons...
would be best to say no more, but to do their best to save the poor woman from the abyss toward whi...