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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
[L’avarice commence où la pauvreté cesse.]
Source:
(Gebbie Publishing Co., ed. 1898), Part I. Two Poets, Page 3
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Book:
Lost Illusions
Writer:
Honoré de Balzac
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
1837
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