WHAT IS PflOEEaTX? 



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he will purchase a library of books for himself; that is to 

 say, he wiU only have five or six hundred, but what joy and 

 pride will arise from the possession of them ! 



You are poor — the sea is yours with its solemn noises, the 

 grand voices of its winds, the aspect of its imposing rage, 

 and of its stiU more imposing calms; it is yours, but it like- 

 wise belongs to others : at some future period, when, by dint 

 of labour, mental exertion, perhaps baseness, you shall have 

 become more or less rich, you will have a little marble basin 

 constructed in your garden, or at least you will be eager to 

 buy and keep in your house a vase containing a couple of 

 gold fish. 



There ai-e moments at which I ask myself whether by 

 ahance our minds may not be so turned that we call poverty 

 that which is splendour and riches, and opulence that which 

 is misery and destitution. 



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