Ogden Daily Standard | 1893-03-12 | Page 5 | The Use of Sudden Wealth

the C of sadden wealth tho disposition toward mad eitra var gancoss gan coso often seen in wealthy young is not always the result of beani to gratify desires but of positive foolishness or mental incompetence which under the pressure of narrow means would not only never hav developed itself but never havo eaister ea isted 1 I have succeeded said a very great statesman because I 1 have never had enough to live on the silly marriages marria gei the old frequently mahe are in just th same way the result not of loss of judgment but for a weakening of the resisting power of the will the consequence of unexpected wealth are however as often fortunate as unfortunate for they are the products of the natural character we have seen a man who inherited a fortune very largo for his wants become during the remainder of his life almost or quite miserly but that was only oa a largo scale the result of the impulse to save which on a small one had been pronounced a wise economy aggravated a little it may be by n foible timidity about spending which is constantly noticeable also in men who were born rich but we have also seen a lady previously suspected of meanness become habitually and rather splendidly liberal serenity which we hold with the quakers to be an eminent virtue often cornea with unexpected good lucar and graciousness too the latter being the result we conceive of the disappearance either of a grudge at fate or of some inner fear of being suspected of bloing booing bo on account of poverty suspiciousness nesa is eminently preeminently pre the foible of the poor and frequently though not always disappears with wealth and the confidence it brings a confidence occasionally so great and so needed as radically to improve manner london spectator