[The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fallen Leaves CHAPTER 2 16/25
As to the application of them next? Nobody has a right to be rich among you, of course ?" "Put it the other way, Mr.Hethcote.All men have a right to be rich--provided they don't make other people poor, as a part of the process.
We don't trouble ourselves much about money; that's the truth. We are farmers, carpenters, weavers, and printers; and what we earn (ask our neighbours if we don't earn it honestly) goes into the common fund. A man who comes to us with money puts it into the fund, and so makes things easy for the next man who comes with empty pockets.
While they are with us, they all live in the same comfort, and have their equal share in the same profits--deducting the sum in reverse for sudden calls and bad times.
If they leave us, the man who has brought money with him has his undisputed right to take it away again; and the man who has brought none bids us good-bye, all the richer for his equal share in the profits which he has personally earned.
The only fuss at our place about money that I can remember was the fuss about my five hundred a year.
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