Richard Croker (Classic Reprint)
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Richard Croker To the Hon. Oliver H. P. Belmont. Dear Sir: As a mark of my respect and friendship, sentiments which find root in those several years we were together in relations of close social and business kind, I dedicate this volume to you. And thereby I more especially desire to testify my admiration of those qualities of honesty, courage, generous energy, and a fair and democratic Americanism which move you to strive in the general interest rather than the narrower service of yourself. Often I have considered that the most desperate test to which man´s nature can be subjected is the inheritance of great wealth. To begin poor, and amass riches and retain them, and be safe from life´s commencement to its close, are common and, indeed, natural conditions. But to be born with great wealth - to be wealthy without effort and when young, blights more frequently than it benefits, and becomes the very Reason of ruin oftener than anything else. One has but to call the roll of one´s own acquaintance to be taught the perils that lie in ambush in a cradle full of gold. Beyond other effects such condition of earliest wealth is prone to sap one´s energy and destroy one´s hard capacity for toil. I do not now speak of him who picks up a system of gainful commerce when it falls from the dead hands of a forbear; who goes on with an existing enterprise which runs of its own momentum; and who offers the spectacle rather of being conducted by a business than of conducting one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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