The Path to Rome By Hilaire Belloc


































































 -  Of all the corrupting effects of wealth there
is none worse than this, that it makes the wealthy (and their - Page 66
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Of All The Corrupting Effects Of Wealth There Is None Worse Than This, That It Makes The Wealthy (And Their Parasites) Think In Some Way Divine, Or At Least A Lovely Character Of The Mind, What Is In Truth Nothing But Their Power Of Luxurious Living.

Heaven keep us all from great riches - I mean from very great riches.

Now the middle-class cannot afford to buy new clothes whenever they feel inclined, neither can they end up a jaunt by a Turkish bath and a great feast with wine. So their care is always to preserve intact what they happen to have, to exceed in nothing, to study cleanliness, order, decency, sobriety, and a steady temper, and they fence all this round and preserve it in the only way it can be preserved, to wit, with conventions, and they are quite right.

I find it very hard to keep up to the demands of these my colleagues, but I recognize that they are on the just side in the quarrel; let none of them go about pretending that I have not defended them in this book.

So I thought of how I should put myself right with these people. I saw that an elaborate story (as, that I had been set upon by a tramp who forced me to change clothes: that I dressed thus for a bet: that I was an officer employed as a spy, and was about to cross the frontier into Germany in the guise of a labourer:

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