Thrift, Excerpt 486 · Samuel Smiles

There never was such a burning desire to be rich, or to _seem_ to be rich. People are no longer satisfied with the earnings of honest industry; but they must aim at becoming suddenly rich,--by speculation, gambling, betting, swindling, or cheating.

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