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"I never thought I did."
"Only that you think nothing can be done without them."
"I don't see how it can."
"Don't you? Well, the longer I live the more cause I see to dread
and distrust what is done easily by force of wealth. Of course when
the money is there, and is given along with one's self (as I know you
intended), it is providential, but I verily believe it intensifies
difficulties and temptations. Poverty is almost as beneficial a
sieve of motives and stimulus to energy as persecution itself."
"There are so many things one can't do."
"Perhaps the fit time is not come for their being done. Or you want
more training for doing them. Remember that to bring one's good
desires to good effect, there is a _how_ to be taken into account.
I know of a place where the mere knowledge that there are unlimited
means to bestow seems to produce ingratitude and captiousness for
whatever is done. On the other hand, I have seen a far smaller gift,
that has cost an effort, most warmly and touchingly received. Again,
the power of at once acting leads to over-haste, want of
consideration, domineering, expectation of adulation, impatience of
counsel or criticism."
"I suppose one does not know till one has tried," said Armine, "but
I should mind nothing from Mr.
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