“ But when a man brings money-troubles on himself by making haste to be rich, then most of the people he has to do with must suffer in the same way with himself. ”
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind (1871). copy citation
| Author | George MacDonald |
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| Source | At the Back of the North Wind |
| Topic | suffering money |
| Date | 1871 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/225/225-h/225-h.htm |
Context
“When the cause of suffering is most deeply hidden in the heart, and nobody knows anything about it but the man himself, he must be a great and a good man indeed, such as few of us have known, if the pain inside him does not make him behave so as to cause all about him to be more or less uncomfortable. But when a man brings money-troubles on himself by making haste to be rich, then most of the people he has to do with must suffer in the same way with himself. The elm-tree which North Wind blew down that very night, as if small and great trials were to be gathered in one heap, crushed Miss Coleman's pretty summer-house: just so the fall of Mr. Coleman crushed the little family that lived over his coach-house and stable.”
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