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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 ex- 

 tremely 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 prin- 

 ciples 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. 



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 



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