Living Within The Means
'l'here is dreádful arnbition for boin "genteel," We keep up appearances too often at thu expenae oí' honesty j and though wo may not be rich, yet we mvst si etn to be " respcctable," thtiugh only n the moaneet sense - in mere vulgar, outward show. We have not the courage to go patiently onivard in the cnndition of lile in which it has pleased God to cali us ; but rnust noeds live in a fashionable station, to which ya ridicuously pleaso to ca!) oiirselyes, and all to grat'ly tho vuin, unsubstar.tial, genteel world of whidi we forin a purt. There i constant pressure and struggle for front seats in tho uncial ampitheaier; in the rnidst of which all noble and s.dlf-sacrificing resolve is irodden down, and many tine n atures are invol untarily beingcrushed to death. Wlwit waste vvhat iTiiserv, what bankruptcy comes from all ambition to dazzle othera by the g]aru of apparent worldly aucoess, wp need not describe. Thu rtiisclfievoijs results ehojy tijcTiselves in a thousand ways - in tho rr,,nlf frauds comniitted by men who dara U be disbonest, but do not dare to be seen p'ior; and in the desperate dashes at fortune, in which nur pity is not co irjuph tbogis who fall, as for the hundreds of famiiioa wbo are often iavplxtil ia tbt-'i ri".?
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