[The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips]@TWC D-Link bookThe Second Generation CHAPTER V 16/38
I'm full of this, for I was hauling my Alfred over the coals this very morning"-- she laughed--"for being what I've made him, for doing what I'd do in his place--for being like my father and my brothers.
It seems to me, precious little of the alleged good that's done with wealth is really good; and what little isn't downright bad hides the truth from people.
Talk about the good money does! What does it amount to--the good that's good, and the good that's rotten bad? What does it all amount to beside the good that having to work does? People that have to work hard are usually honest and have sympathy and affection and try to amount to something. And if they are bad, why at least they can't hurt anybody but themselves very much, where a John Dumont or a Skeffington can injure hundreds--thousands.
Take your own case, Mr.Ranger.Your money has never done you any good.
It was your hard work.
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