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standard of life for the industrious, honest, and thrifty, with 

 wliich, when attained, we should be content, and beyond 

 which desire is unreasonable. The next step is to learn liow 

 to control tlie unreasonable. Here is where we must fight 

 nature, who favors the unreasonable, if they be strong. We 

 do not need to concern ourselves witli the lazy, the dishonest, 

 or the unthrifty. Nature will take care of them. She will 

 kill them. 



