“ Yet when a man is very fond of his money it is not easy for him at all times to be very fond of his children also. ”
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903). copy citation
| Author | Samuel Butler |
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| Source | The Way of All Flesh |
| Topic | money time |
| Date | 1903 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2084/2084-h/2084-h.htm |
Context
“Money came pouring in upon him, and the faster it came the fonder he became of it, though, as he frequently said, he valued it not for its own sake, but only as a means of providing for his dear children.
Yet when a man is very fond of his money it is not easy for him at all times to be very fond of his children also. The two are like God and Mammon. Lord Macaulay has a passage in which he contrasts the pleasures which a man may derive from books with the inconveniences to which he may be put by his acquaintances.”
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