dogged purpose to achieve, but rather with the peevish object of annoying a small fish which I did not at all wish to catch. Also, I threw infamously. Also, I ought to have lost my trout, not once, but several times, while playing it. Also, I was extremely pleased when I had landed it. I can only say, "Observe the resemblance between this affair and that business of life in which we are all engaged. To the undeserving the good things go. Industry is in most cases its own reward. A complete abstention from toiling and spinning plus a raiment that outshines Solomon are the marks of others than field lilies. The wicked flourish and die in their beds. How is one, in short, to account for the undeserving rich upon the accepted principles of morality?" One can't. It is simpler to account for the accepted principles of morality as being the invention of the undeserving rich. If it were so, there is genius in it.
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My grandfather died worth a lot of money. Why? Because he took a sporting chance and it came off. Had he not done this I should now be competing for a sandwich-board with my betters. Granted that my grandfather deserved his luck, granted that his application to his business of selling bars of iron made him fit to understand the
