A SURE SIGN.
"Lit;, is a failure.” said a tiredlooking passenger, in a grave anti far-away voice. "Man is a fraud, woman a bore, happiness a delusion, friendship a humbug; love is a disease, beauty a deception, marriage a mistake, a wife a trial, a child a nuisance; good is merely a hypocrisy, evil is detection. The whole system of existence —life, morality, society, humanity, and all that—is a hollow sham. Our boasted wisdom is egotism; generosity is imbecility. There is nothing of any importance but money. Money is everything, and, after all. what is everything?” Noth“Glad to meet you. sir.” said th,' thin little man, with the ginger-hued whiskers, extending his hand cordially to the speaker. "I have the dyspepsia pretty bad at times myself ”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue III, 17 January 1903, Page 204
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126A SURE SIGN. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue III, 17 January 1903, Page 204
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