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free man and succeed like one! Decide what thou desirest to accomplish and then work will aid thee to achieve it!' He went on his way saying he was glad I had shamed him for his cowardice.* "One day I went outside the gates again, and was surprised to find a great crowd gathering there. When I asked a man for an explanation he replied: 'Hast thou not heard? An escaped slave who murdered one of the King's guards has been brought to justice and will this day be flogged to death for his crime. Even the King himself is to be here.' "So dense was the crowd about the flogging post, I feared to go near lest my tray of honey cakes be upset. Therefore, I climbed up the unfinished wall to see over the heads of the people. I was fortunate in having a view of Nebuchadnezzar himself as he rode by in his golden chariot. Never had I beheld such grandeur, such robes and hangings of gold cloth and velvet. "I could not see the flogging though I could hear the shrieks of the poor slave. I wandered how one so noble as our handsome King could endure to see such suffering, yet when I saw he was laughing and joking with his nobles, I knew he was cruel and understood why such inhuman tasks were demanded of the slaves building the walls. "After the slave was dead, his body was hung upon a pole by a rope attached to his leg so all might see. As the crowd began to thin, I went close. On the hairy chest, I saw tattooed, two entwined serpents. It was Pirate. "The next time I met Arad Gula he was a changed man. ________________________________________________ *Slave customs in ancient Babylon, though they may seem inconsistent to us, were strictly regulated by law. For example, a slave could own property of any kind, even other slaves upon which his master had no claim. Slaves intermarried freely with non-slaves. Children of free mothers were free. Most of the city merchants were slaves. Many of these were in partnership with their masters and wealthy in their own right. 141
Full of enthusiasm he greeted me: 'Behold, the slave thou knewest is now a free man. There was magic in thy words. Already my sales and my profits are increasing. My wife is overjoyed. She was a free woman, the niece of my master. She much desires that we move to a strange city where no man shall know I was once a slave. Thus our children shall be above reproach for their father's misfortune. Work has become my best helper. It has enabled me to recapture my confidence and my skill to sell.' "I was overjoyed that I had been able even in a small way, to repay him for the encouragement he had given me. "One evening Swasti came to me in deep distress: 'Thy master is in trouble. I fear for him. Some months ago he lost much at the gaming tables. He pays not the farmer for his grain nor his honey. He pays not the money lender. They are angry and threaten him.' " "Why should we worry over his folly. We are not his keepers,' I replied thoughtlessly. " 'Foolish youth, thou understandeth not. To the money lender didst he give thy title to secure a loan. Under the law he can claim thee and sell thee. I know not what to do. He is a good master. Why? Oh why, should such trouble come upon him?' "Not were Swasti's fears groundless. While I was doing the baking next morning, the money lender returned with a man he called Sasi. This man looked me over and said I would do. "The money lender waited not for my master to return but told Swasti to tell him he had taken me. With only the robe on my back and the purse of pennies hanging safely from my belt, I was hurried away from the unfinished baking. 142
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The Richest Man in Babylon by Georg
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LO, MONEY IS PLENTIFUL FOR THOSE WH
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Foreword Our prosperity as a nation
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An Historical Sketch of Babylon In
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abandoned that no living person eve
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thousands of them. One of the outst
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impregnable walls. Advisors of Nabo
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each bearing a heavy goatskin of wa
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following in the footsteps of their
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onlookers might see him pay greetin
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The Richest Man in Babylon In old B
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there is delight for the senses and
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But remember this, the sun that shi
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managed to get along without it. Bu
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" 'Arkad,' he continued, 'you have
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great cities on barren coasts with
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lost nor entangled in investments t
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"Because they know how," replied th
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odor. "Behold the richest man in Ba
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Thereupon they agreed that it was s
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"Yet, thou do not all earn the same
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expenses that thou mayest have coin
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"The farmer was well pleased and be
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investments." THE FIFTH CURE Make
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from it unless the Gods call him pr
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"This, then, is the sixth cure for
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e purchased at lower prices. "Alway
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Meet the Goddess of Good Luck "If a
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eward with generous gifts those who
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occupations, there is opportunity t
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said, we take credit to our own ind
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chance that may lead to wealth. I b
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elate will tell truthfully how oppo
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"Wise are thy words, my friend," re
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sold at such a handsome profit. "We
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"Hark ye, with deep attention to th
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eturned to the house of his father
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" 'Soon there followed, I tell you,
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I have lost.' " 'Tis a worthy ambit
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not, as these three bags of gold do
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The Second Law of Gold Gold laboret
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gold? "If there be men among you, w
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"No, no. Not such as that. I seek n
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hot the day, or how tired my legs,
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Page 91 and 92: "The women do appeal to my good fri
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Page 109 and 110: and my lord married me because of i
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Page 133 and 134: "He whispered back, 'I tell somethi
Page 135 and 136: Godoso confided to me that the deal
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