“ If ever a good man were ruined by good fortune, it is my benefactor. ”
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1865). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Source | Our Mutual Friend |
| Topic | fortune ruin |
| Date | 1865 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/883/883-h/883-h.htm |
Context
“but every day he changes for the worse, and for the worse. Not to me—he is always much the same to me—but to others about him. Before my eyes he grows suspicious, capricious, hard, tyrannical, unjust. If ever a good man were ruined by good fortune, it is my benefactor. And yet, Pa, think how terrible the fascination of money is! I see this, and hate this, and dread this, and don’t know but that money might make a much worse change in me. And yet I have money always in my thoughts and my desires;”
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