The American Claimant


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"Oh, the leaving out of the factor of human nature; requiring another man  
to do what you wouldn't do yourself."  
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Do you mean--"  
Why here's what I mean; it's very simple. Tompkins is a blacksmith; has  
a family; works for wages; and hard, too--fooling around won't furnish  
the bread. Suppose it should turn out that by the death of somebody in  
England he is suddenly an earl--income, half a million dollars a year.  
What would he do?"  
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Well, I--I suppose he would have to decline to--"  
Man, he would grab it in a second!"  
Do you really think he would?"  
Think?--I don't think anything about it, I know it."  
Why?"  
Because he's not a fool."  
So you think that if he were a fool, he--"  
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