A Human Strategy, Matt Berry aphorism 57

57
He who has a heart of gold is pure in heart: Here is a rich man who has his strongbox full of coins, with no room for more.  He casts what remains to the feet of the less fortunate, nonchalantly and perhaps with an ounce of arrogance ... but also with a pound of foolhardiness, for where else might he have put these trifles and without effecting such a return from their black hearts?

They must pay for the respect they now owe, all the more grudgingly when the debt is forgiven: a humble gratitude, from the poor to the rich, becomes another word for humiliation, and this is a debt which must be paid with the coin of resentment.  It is impossible both to owe and to be pure in heart.  ... a warning to those who owe tithes to anyone other than themselves.



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