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Title: The "Goldfish"
Author: Arthur Train
Release Date: July 16, 2004 [eBook #12920]
Language: English
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THE "GOLDFISH"
Being the Confessions af a Successful Man
EDITED BY
ARTHUR TRAIN
1921
[Illustration: Arthur Train from the drawing by S.J. Woolf]
"They're like 'goldfish' swimming round and round in a big bowl. They can look through, sort of dimly; but they can't get out?"--Hastings, p. 315.
CONTENTS
MYSELF
MY FRIENDS
MY CHILDREN
MY MIND
MY MORALS
MY FUTURE
"We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. We have lost the power of even imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant--the liberation from material attachments; the unbribed soul; the manlier indifference; the paying our way by what we are or do, and not by what we have; the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly--the more athletic trim, in short the moral fighting shape.... It is certain that t