THE GAME OF LIFE.
That Troublesome Commodity— Money. From hardship to comfort, the gap is a thousand miles wide. From comfort to luxury the step is only a short way. Ask any man who has made easy money. The new-rich seek new ways of spending. And spending for luxuries gives money power for pleasure that there was complete lack of in poorer days. But, as expenses grow, there rises the need to increase the income to keep up the new living standard. There's the rub. And money is desperately easy to drop. Troublesome to keep, troublesome to lose An oldtime wise man put u on the books that the richest was he who had the fewest wants. Diogenes, after enjoying immense riches, lost them, and lived in his barrel oblivious to fortune. Wearing the laurels at the Isthmian games, he claimed the greatest right to them as in the game of life he had at last overcome desire. Most men soon or late will agree with Diogenes.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXI, Issue 3162, 11 May 1931, Page 7
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