You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay you do more good to them by spending it in luxury than by giving it for by spending it in luxury you make them exert industry whereas by giving it you keep them idle.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money the poor because they had much.
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Where large sums of money are concerned it is advisable to trust nobody.
