The use of life / by the Right Hon. Lord Avebury.

  • Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913.
Date:
1900
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The use of life / by the Right Hon. Lord Avebury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wealth is a great temptation to avarice; as we learnt long ago at school, “ Crescit amor nnmmi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit; ” or, as Oliver Wendell Holmes wittily puts it— “ I care not much for gold or land : Give me a mortgage here and there, Some good bank-stock—some note of hand, Or trifling railway share : I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I can spend.” The poor man, said Seneca, “ wanteth many things, but the covetous man wanteth everything.” It has been satirically observed that there would be many good Samaritans, if it were not for the twopence and the oih A continual and restless search after Fortune, says Bacon, “ takes up too much of their time, who have nobler things to observe; ” for wealth is only good as far as it adds to life, not life as it adds to wealth. Poverty has been called the scholar’s bride, and “ he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.” ^ Our very expressions about money arc signifi- cant. We constantly hear of a man making * Emerson.