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 The Crown of Wild Olive

(See page 106)

It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts; as physically impossible as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy people like their dinners, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthily minded people like making money—ought to like it, and to enjoy the sensation of winning it: but the main object of their life is not money; it is something better than money.

Don Juan

(See pages 233, 340)

Oh, Gold! Why call we misers miserable? Theirs is the pleasure that can never pall; Theirs is the best bower-anchor, the chain-cable Which holds fast other pleasures great and small. Ye who but see the saving man at table And scorn his temperate board, as none at all, And wonder how the wealthy can be sparing, Know not what visions spring from each cheese-paring

Perhaps he hath great projects in his mind To build a college, or to found a race,