Success and Failure (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Goes down into the country and buys an ancestral house he sets the sleepy countryside agog, and floods it with workmen, building, laying out gardens, glass houses, pheasant coverts, and the rest. The time seems to have come when the prophecy is fulfilled, and ten men will take hold of one that is a Jew, saying, We will go with thee, for we have heard that God is with you (zech. Viii. And as the word success is understood, this man is successful beyond the dreams of romance. And yet I pro test that this kind of success appears to me neither brilliant nor admirable. I see the unhappy man suddenly in volved in the gleaming folds of a monstrous python, that will inevitably throttle him. And I suppose that, while a few of the thoughtless envy him, most of, the thoughtful pity him, and the pious pray for him.

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