“Life — is it anything more than a machine to which money imparts the motion?”

— Honoré de Balzac, book Gobseck

La vie n'est-elle pas une machine à laquelle l'argent imprime le mouvement? <br class="br"> p. 26, 1921 édition https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158007362832;view=1up;seq=63 <br class="br">Gobseck (1830)

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