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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 6 (September 1, 1938)

The Poverty of Riches

The Poverty of Riches.

The greatest advantage of a lot of money is that it enables you to slip back to where you were before you had any. Biography is rich in millionaires to whom the sweetest reward of super-oodledom is the privilege of sitting in their own private kitchen, with their feet on the stove, smoking a short pipe and defying the tyranny of Fortune and Flunkeydom. This is the way of Ambition. It goes up with a bang and all that comes down is the stick.