Eugenie Grandet (Le Livre de poche classique, 1414)

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" Misery begets equality. Women have this in common with the angels,--suffering humanity belongs to them. In all situations women have more cause for suffering than men, and they suffer more. Man has strength and the power of exercising it; he acts, moves, thinks, occupies himself; he looks ahead, and sees consolation in the future. It was thus with Charles. But the woman stays at home; she is always face to face with the grief from which nothing distracts her; she goes down to the depths of t"