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Excerpt from The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 22: January to June, 1894
After all, ' he resumed, in a more cheerful tone, 'it is health, not wealth, that has the last word. A rich man is only a little better Off, and probably feels much worse off, than a mechanic when he is told that he can never be well again. And rich people are often unhappy. More Often, perhaps, than poor people, who haven't time to brood over their sorrows. Poverty brings disease Yes; but that subject is being dealt with, and in that direction there is something definite to work for. The bigger problem looks almost hopeless. All one can see is that it will have to be taken in hand, and that there is no justification worth listening to for luxury and selfishness.' This indolent cogitator was not - as may have been supposed from the foregoing soliloquy - a millionaire or a great territorial magnate; being in fact only a young doctor at an inland watering place, whose professional earnings, scanty as yet, were supplemented by a small private fortune. Yet a comparatively small income will go far towards providing a bachelor so situated with those luxuries which Matthew Austin chie?y valued - pretty surround ings, good wine, a fair collection of etchings, a well-selected library, and ?owers all the year round - and if he was not rich, he had, within the limits of his desires, all that money could give him. So, at any rate, he thought; and more than once during this slack season of the year, when patients were few and he had leisure to consider his ways, he had accused himself of unwarrant able self-indulgence.
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