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The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton

CHAPTER XVIII
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Besides, the possession of wealth in itself tends to an unnatural state of existence.

Man is happy only if he earns the money which buys for him the necessaries of life." Mr.Bomford listened as one listens to a lunatic.

Mr.Cowper, however, nodded his head in kindly toleration.
"Thoughts like that," he admitted, "have come to me, my young friend, in the seclusion of my study.

They have come, perhaps, in the inspired moments, but in the inspired moments one is not living that every-day and necessary life which is forced upon us by the conditions of existence in this planet.

There is nothing in the whole scheme of life so great as money.


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