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Seven Cures For a Lean Purse The glory of Babylon endures. Down through the ages its reputation comes to us as the richest of cities, its treasures as fabulous. Yet it was not always so. The riches of Babylon were the results of the wisdom of its people. They first had to learn how to become wealthy. When the Good King, Sargon, returned to Babylon after defeating his enemies, the Elamites, he was confronted with a serious situation. The Royal Chancellor explained it to the King thus: "After many years of great prosperity brought to our people because your majesty built the great irrigation canals and the mighty temples of the Gods, now that these works are completed the people seem unable to support themselves. "The laborers are without employment. The merchants have few customers. The farmers are unable to sell their produce. The people have not enough gold to buy food." "But where has all the gold gone that we spent for these great improvements?" demanded the King. "It has found its way, I fear," responded the Chancellor, "into the possession of a few very rich men of our city. It filtered through the fingers of most our people as quickly as the goat's milk goes through the strainer. Now that the stream of gold has ceased to flow, most of our people have nothing to for their earnings." The King was thoughtful for some time. Then he asked, "Why should so few men be able to acquire all the gold?" 35
"Because they know how," replied the Chancellor. "One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability." "But why," demanded the King, "should not all the people learn how to accumulate gold and therefore become themselves rich and prosperous?" Quite possible, your excellency. But who can teach them? Certainly not the priests, because they know naught of money making." "Who knows best in all our city how to become wealthy, Chancellor?" asked the King. "Thy question answers itself, your majesty. Who has amassed the greatest wealth, in Babylon?" "Well said, my able Chancellor. It is Arkad. He is richest man in Babylon. Bring him before me on the morrow." Upon the following day, as the King had decreed, Arkad appeared before him, straight and sprightly despite his three score years and ten. "Arkad," spoke the King, "is it true thou art the richest man in Babylon?" "So it is reported, your majesty, and no man disputes it" "How becamest thou so wealthy?" "By taking advantage of opportunities available to all citizens of our good city." "Thou hadst nothing to start with?" 36
Page 1 and 2: The Richest Man in Babylon by Georg
Page 3 and 4: LO, MONEY IS PLENTIFUL FOR THOSE WH
Page 5 and 6: Foreword Our prosperity as a nation
Page 7 and 8: An Historical Sketch of Babylon In
Page 9 and 10: abandoned that no living person eve
Page 11 and 12: thousands of them. One of the outst
Page 13 and 14: impregnable walls. Advisors of Nabo
Page 15 and 16: each bearing a heavy goatskin of wa
Page 17 and 18: following in the footsteps of their
Page 19 and 20: onlookers might see him pay greetin
Page 21 and 22: The Richest Man in Babylon In old B
Page 23 and 24: there is delight for the senses and
Page 25 and 26: But remember this, the sun that shi
Page 27 and 28: managed to get along without it. Bu
Page 29 and 30: " 'Arkad,' he continued, 'you have
Page 31 and 32: great cities on barren coasts with
Page 33: lost nor entangled in investments t
Page 37 and 38: odor. "Behold the richest man in Ba
Page 39 and 40: Thereupon they agreed that it was s
Page 41 and 42: "Yet, thou do not all earn the same
Page 43 and 44: expenses that thou mayest have coin
Page 45 and 46: "The farmer was well pleased and be
Page 47 and 48: investments." THE FIFTH CURE Make
Page 49 and 50: from it unless the Gods call him pr
Page 51 and 52: "This, then, is the sixth cure for
Page 53 and 54: e purchased at lower prices. "Alway
Page 55 and 56: Meet the Goddess of Good Luck "If a
Page 57 and 58: eward with generous gifts those who
Page 59 and 60: occupations, there is opportunity t
Page 61 and 62: said, we take credit to our own ind
Page 63 and 64: chance that may lead to wealth. I b
Page 65 and 66: elate will tell truthfully how oppo
Page 67 and 68: "Wise are thy words, my friend," re
Page 69 and 70: sold at such a handsome profit. "We
Page 71 and 72: "Hark ye, with deep attention to th
Page 73 and 74: eturned to the house of his father
Page 75 and 76: " 'Soon there followed, I tell you,
Page 77 and 78: I have lost.' " 'Tis a worthy ambit
Page 79 and 80: not, as these three bags of gold do
Page 81 and 82: The Second Law of Gold Gold laboret
Page 83 and 84: 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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"The safest loans, my token box tel
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"The women do appeal to my good fri
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"Thy sister is a sterling woman who
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"Thinkest thou thy sister would wis
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impractical men who think they see
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Old Banzar had the vantage point fo
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the slaughtered attackers piled up
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The Camel Trader of Babylon The hun
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and waving his hand good-naturedly
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"The second time we were not so for
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and my lord married me because of i
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"I needed no further urging, but th
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"The glazed eyes of my camels brigh
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The Clay Tablets From Babylon P
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say will lead any honorable man out
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wealth elsewhere, only to find disa
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More than eight pieces of silver we
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that his scribbling upon those clay
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managed and right cheerfully at tha
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The Luckiest Man in Babylon At the
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Three old men plowing a field caugh
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"He was a man thou couldst trust wi
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"He whispered back, 'I tell somethi
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Godoso confided to me that the deal
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egan to sell and soon my tray was e
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"At that, he confided in me. Someth
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Full of enthusiasm he greeted me: '
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"I thought of Pirate with his bitte
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secret key to the golden shekels?"
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