. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . of thefuture. I am going into that world uninsured. I take theresponsibility. Dont bother me about your religion. HereI have the two worlds before me—this one and the next. Ihave chosen this. Go away from me, God and angels, andall thoughts of the future But where is Croesus, and Cleopatra, and iEsopas, whohad one dish of food that cost one million four hundredthousand dollars; and Lentulus,who had a pond of fish worth onehundred and seventy-five thousanddollars; and Scaurus, who boughta country sea
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . of thefuture. I am going into that world uninsured. I take theresponsibility. Dont bother me about your religion. HereI have the two worlds before me—this one and the next. Ihave chosen this. Go away from me, God and angels, andall thoughts of the future But where is Croesus, and Cleopatra, and iEsopas, whohad one dish of food that cost one million four hundredthousand dollars; and Lentulus,who had a pond of fish worth onehundred and seventy-five thousanddollars; and Scaurus, who boughta country seat for twenty nine mill-ion dollars; and Tiberius, who leftat death a fortune of one hundredand eighteen million and onehundred and twenty thousand dol-. lars? Where are they? If a windyday should blow all the dust thatis left of them into your eyes itwould not make you wink , my friends, then very certain-ly, your comforts of surrounding cannot keep back the old archer. You cannot charm him withmusic, or dazzle him with plate or decoy him with pictures orbribe him with your money. CLEOPATRA. 370 WISE MEN WHO FLAY THE FOOL.
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