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Rh And again:

"Better be dead than penniless. As the story goes:

"So let us at any cost strive to make money. For the saying goes:

"Now this cash comes to men in six ways. They are: (1) begging for charity, (2) flunkeyism at a court, (3) farmwork, (4) the learned professions, (5) usury, (6) trade.

"However, among all these methods of making money, trade is the only one without a hitch in it. For

Kings' favor is a thing unstable; Crows peck at winnings charitable; You make, in learning the professions, Too many wearisome concessions To teachers; farms are too much labor; In usury you lend your neighbor