The Misery of Millionaires.
Mr E. T. Hooley remarked lately : — " If people had any idea of the many inconveniences of being what the world calls wealthy, they would never ask such a foolish question as 'Does wealth bring happiness ?' First of all, there are the begging-letter writers. Once let people think you rich, and before a year has passed you will have received, from people you never heard of before, requests for loans, gifts, and offices of profit sufficient to exhaust the combined patronage of all the Lord Chancellors Great Britain has ever had, and to break the Bank of England. A rich man must live constantly in the public eye. Privacy is a stranger to him. The public want to know more about him, and the newspapers teem with paragraphs, telling how he opens his letters, what he has for breakfast and even how he puts on his collar and Bhoes. An incognito is an impossibility for him. Everybody knows him, and his entrance into a shop is the signal for an increase of 25 per cent, on everything he desires to purchase. His reputed wealth makes him more or less an object of envy to everyone not so well off, and be is very apt to be annoyed with threatening letters from Anarchists, if not actually made a target for their ballets."
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Manawatu Herald, 30 June 1898, Page 3
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224The Misery of Millionaires. Manawatu Herald, 30 June 1898, Page 3
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