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semper idem Ano XIII ...M'ESPANTO ÀS VEZES , OUTRAS M'AVERGONHO ... (Sá de Miranda) _________________ correio para jppereira@gmail.com _________________
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2.7.12
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The advantage of riches seems to be in the skin or not much deeper. I
wake up in morning & think, Well, I need not go to Boston or New
York: I need not purse my mouth in expectation of any great man to
descend into the parlor. I need not consult any worse man’s or odd man’s
humor; I am no man’s man. I am quite free to go to my work, the work
which is my joy to do. This makes a state of perfect preparation for the
work. If I wake up in another man’s house or in a hotel or place of
constraint, when I have come to do a forced work, come not with ideal
freedom but with external compulsion of some sort, then I feel an
irritability as much in the skin is in the soul, that pesters &
hinders me. If I were master of Millions I should not feel such vexation
but should control the circumstances & inasmuch as I am master of
hundreds or thousands, I do. And such & no other seems the advantage
of riches. If a man have more soul, more will, less skin, he can do without riches.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (url)
© José Pacheco Pereira
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