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In The Same Way The Eminence Attaching To The Mere Possession Of Great Wealth Disappoints Us Nine Times Out Of Ten, Especially If The Wealth Has Been Accumulated Rapidly. For Great Wealth Is Accumulated Rapidly By Cunning Or Chance, Or A Mixture Of The Two. Cunning Has Nothing To Do With High Qualities; It Is Rather A Presumption Against Them; While Chance Has Nothing To Do With Them Either. Therefore It Is That Men Are Always Complaining After Meeting So-and-so, That He Seemed To Be Astonishingly Stupid, Though He Made A Million In Ten Years And Started As A Pauper.

The Tender Evenlode That Makes Her Meadows Hush To Hear The Sound Of Waters Mingling In The Brakes, And Binds My Heart To English Ground. A Lovely River, All Alone, She Lingers In The Hills And Holds A Hundred Little Towns Of Stone, Forgotten In The Western Wolds.

If We Are To Be Happy, Decent And Secure Of Our Souls: Drink Some Kind Of Fermented Liquor With One's Food; Go On The Water From Time To Time; Dance On Occasions, And Sing In A Chorus.

... But As A Godless Greed Pursued Its Career From Excess To Excess, It Provoked A Sort Of Twin Hostile Brother, Equally Godless, Born In The Same Atmosphere Of Utter Disregard For The Foundational Virtues Of Humility And Charity. This Hostile Twin Brother Of Capitalism Was Destined To Be Called Communism, And Is Today Setting Out To Murder Its Elder.

There Is No One Who Has Cooked But Has Discovered That Each Particular Dish Depends For Its Rightness Upon Some Little Point Which He Is Never Told. It Is Not Only So Of Cooking: It Is So Of Splicing A Rope; Of Painting A Surface Of Wood; Of Mixing Mortar; Of Almost Anything You Like To Name Among The Immemorial Human Arts.