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The Man Who Desired Gold 5 close friends. We have been contented subjects of our kind. We have been satisfied to work long hours ...

6 THERICHESTMAN INBABYLON to own lands and cattle, to have fine robes and coins in my purse. I am willing to work for these thin ...

The Man Who Desired Gold 7 forth, day after day, year after year. Naught of happi- ness to look forward to. Beds of straw upon w ...

The Man Who Desired Gold 8 wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit upon the wall or travel to far land ...

9 THERICHESTMAN INBABYLON "Let us go to Arkad this very day," Bansir urged. "Also, let us ask other friends of our boyhood days, ...

The Richest Man in Babylon In old Babylon there once lived a certain very rich mannamed Arkad. Far and wide he was famed for his ...

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10 THERICHESTMAN INBABYLON "Nor have you worked harder or more faithfully, insofar as we can judge. Why, then, should a fickle f ...

9 become possessed of so much prosperity, so he continued: "In my youth I looked about me and saw all the good things there were ...

12 THERICHESTMAN INBABYLON tentment. And I realized that wealth increased the potency of all these. "Wealth is a power. With wea ...

The Richest Man in Babylon 13 that learning was of two kinds: the one kind being the things we learned and knew, and the other b ...

14 THERICHESTMAN INBABYLON "All that night I carved, though my back pained and thesmell of the wick made my head ache until my e ...

The Richest Man in Babylon 15 " B u ta l lI e a r n i sm i n e t o k e e p , i s i t n o t? ' I demanded. "Far from it,' he repl ...

16 THERICHESTMAN INBABYLON faithfully you nourish and water that tree with con- sistent savings, the sooner may you bask in cont ...

The Richest Man in Babylon 17 to the jewel merchant. If you would know the truth about sheep, go to the herdsman. Advice is one ...

18 THERICHESTMAN INBABYLON lines and his eyes drooped, for he was becoming a very old man And he said to me, 'Arkad, hast thou y ...

The Richest Man in Babylon 19 "Fortunate only in that I had the desire to prosper before I first met him. For four years did I n ...

20 THERICHESTMAN INBABYLON said, reasonable, then being so simple, if all men did it,there would not be enough wealth to go arou ...

The Richest Man in Babylon 21 earnings, will not the same percentage be also yours to keep? "Then learn to make your treasure wo ...

The Richest Man in Babylon 22 a new light. They realized that Algamish had come back each time to the room of the scribes becaus ...