From Cousin Pons, by Honoré de Balzac. translated by James Waring & Ellen MarriageAND THIS
"And this in a time when advertising is all powerful; when we gild the gas lamps in the Place de la Concorde to console the poor man for his poverty by reminding him that he is rich as a citizen."
From Page 258, Saintsbury Edition
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