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The Investment of Influence

CHAPTER V
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But there are idle poor and idle rich and busy poor and busy rich.

"If the busy rich people watched and rebuked the idle rich people, all would be well; and if the busy poor people watched and rebuked the idle poor people all would be right.

Many a beggar is as lazy as if he had $10,000 a year, and many a man of large fortune is busier than his errand boy." Forgetting this, some poor look upon the rich as enemies and desire to pillage their property, and some rich have only epithets for the poor.
Now, wise men know that there is no separation of rich industrious classes and the poor industrious classes, for they differ only as do two branches of one tree.

This year one bough is full of bloom, and the other bears only scantily, but next year the conditions will be reversed.

Wealth and poverty are like waves; what is now crest will soon be trough.


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