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| | The Hindu : Petit-Bourgeois lives and loves |
 | | Everything that made up her immediate surroundings, tedious countryside, imbecile petty bourgeois, mediocrity of life, seemed an exception in the world, a particular piece of bad luck that had seized on her, while beyond, as far as the eye could see, ranged the vast lands of happiness and passions. |
 | | Homais, the chemist, uses the same cut-and-thrust obsequiousness, the same commercial cunning, putting interests over principles ("he sacrificed his dignity to the more serious interests of his business"), flouting regulations and showing a keen sense of the importance of publicity, of the creation of an image that was so essential for business. |
 | | In this mundane middle-class, petit- bourgeois world, it is the economy of money that is all- important. |
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