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tokens come and go frequently in my token box. Good merchants are an asset to our city and it profits me to aid them to keep trade moving that Babylon be prosperous." Mathon picked out a beetle carved in turquoise and tossed it contemptuously on the floor. "A bug from Egypt. The lad who owns this does not care whether I ever receive back my gold. When I reproach him he replies, 'How can I repay when ill fate pursues me? You have plenty more.' What can I do? The token is his father's—a worthy man of small means who did pledge his land and herd to back his son's enterprises. The youth found success at first and then was over-zealous to gain great wealth. His knowledge was immature. His enterprises collapsed. "Youth is ambitious. Youth would take short cuts to wealth and the desirable things for which it stands. To secure wealth quickly youth often borrows unwisely. Youth, never having had experience, cannot realize that hopeless debt is like a deep pit into which one may descend quickly and where one may struggle vainly for many days. It is a pit of sorrow and regrets where the brightness of the sun is overcast and night is made unhappy by restless sleeping. Yet, I do not discourage borrowing gold. I encourage it. I recommend it if it be for a wise purpose. I myself made my first real success as a merchant with borrowed gold. "Yet, what should the lender do in such a case? The youth is in despair and accomplishes nothing. He is discouraged. He makes no effort to repay. My heart turns against depriving the father of his land and cattle." "You tell me much that I am interested to hear," ventured Rodan, "but, I hear no answer to my question. Should I lend my fifty pieces of gold to my sister's husband? They mean much to me." 93
"Thy sister is a sterling woman whom I do much esteem. Should her husband come to me and ask to borrow fifty pieces of gold I should ask him for what purpose he would use it. "If he answered that he desired to become a merchant like myself and deal in jewels and rich furnishings. I would say, 'What knowledge have you of the ways of trade? Do you know where you can buy at lowest cost? Do you know where you can sell at a fair price?" Could he say 'Yes' to these questions?" "No, he could not," Rodan admitted. "He has helped me much in making spears and he has helped some in the shops." "Then, would I say to him that his purpose was not wise. Merchants must learn their trade. His ambition, though worthy, is not practical and I would not lend him any gold. "But, supposing he could say: 'Yes, I have helped merchants much. I know how to travel to Smyrna and to buy at low cost the rugs the housewives weave. I also know many of the rich people of Babylon to whom I can sell these at a large profit.' Then I would say: 'Your purpose is wise and your ambition honorable. I shall be glad to lend you the fifty pieces of gold if you can give me security that they will be returned." But would he say, 'I have no security other than that I am an honored man and will pay you well for the loan.' Then would I reply, 'I treasure much each piece of gold. Were the robbers to take it from you as you journeyed to Smyrna or take the rugs from you as you returned, then you would have no means of repaying me and my gold would be gone.' "Gold, you see, Rodan, is the merchandise of the lender of money. It is easy to lend. If it is lent unwisely then it is 94
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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
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
Page 85 and 86: "No, no. Not such as that. I seek n
Page 87 and 88: hot the day, or how tired my legs,
Page 89 and 90: "The safest loans, my token box tel
Page 91: "The women do appeal to my good fri
Page 95 and 96: "Thinkest thou thy sister would wis
Page 97 and 98: impractical men who think they see
Page 99 and 100: Old Banzar had the vantage point fo
Page 101 and 102: the slaughtered attackers piled up
Page 103 and 104: The Camel Trader of Babylon The hun
Page 105 and 106: and waving his hand good-naturedly
Page 107 and 108: "The second time we were not so for
Page 109 and 110: and my lord married me because of i
Page 111 and 112: "I needed no further urging, but th
Page 113 and 114: "The glazed eyes of my camels brigh
Page 115 and 116: The Clay Tablets From Babylon P
Page 117 and 118: say will lead any honorable man out
Page 119 and 120: wealth elsewhere, only to find disa
Page 121 and 122: More than eight pieces of silver we
Page 123 and 124: that his scribbling upon those clay
Page 125 and 126: managed and right cheerfully at tha
Page 127 and 128: The Luckiest Man in Babylon At the
Page 129 and 130: Three old men plowing a field caugh
Page 131 and 132: "He was a man thou couldst trust wi
Page 133 and 134: "He whispered back, 'I tell somethi
Page 135 and 136: Godoso confided to me that the deal
Page 137 and 138: egan to sell and soon my tray was e
Page 139 and 140: "At that, he confided in me. Someth
Page 141 and 142: 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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