This is an excerpt from the novel that illustrates
Balzac’s perception:-
“A miser’s life is a constant exercise of every
human faculty in the service of his own personality. He considers only two
feelings, vanity and self-interest; but as the achievement of his interest
supplies to some extent a concrete and tangible tribute to his vanity, as it is
a constant…
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