"The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things."

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What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

— Jane Austen