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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: on your stables. You would show yourself unworthy of your destiny
if you spent no more than three thousand francs with your tailor,
six hundred in perfumery, a hundred crowns to your shoemaker, and
a hundred more to your hatter. As for your laundress, there goes
another thousand francs; a young man of fashion must of necessity
make a great point of his linen; if your linen comes up to the
required standard, people often do not look any further. Love and
the Church demand a fair altar-cloth. That is fourteen thousand
francs. I am saying nothing of losses at play, bets, and
presents; it is impossible to allow less than two thousand francs
for pocket money. I have led that sort of life, and I know all
Father Goriot |
