正文 POPULAR FALLACIES II. -- THAT ILL-GOTTEN GAIN NEVE

The weakest part of mankind have this saying o in their mouth. It is the trite solation administered to the easy dupe, when he has been tricked out of his money or estate, that the acquisition of it will do the owner no good. But the rogues of this world -- the prudenter part of them, at least -- know better; and, if the observation had been as true as it is old, would not have failed by this time to have discovered it. They have pretty sharp distins of the fluctuating and the perma. "Lightly e, lightly go," is a proverb, which they very well afford to leave, when they leave little else, to the losers. They do not always find manot by rapine or chiery, insensibly to melt away, as the poets will have it or that all gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thiefs hand that grasps it. Church land, alieo lay uses, was formerly denouo have this slippery quality. But some portions of it somehow always stuck so fast, that the denunciators have been vain to postpohe prophecy of refuo a late posterity.

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