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In this closing chapter, the author mentioned several things I agree on. Getting rich, or becoming successful, is not a result. It is a lasting, or constant, or never-ending process, just like learning. Many people have mistakenly thought it is the final result of something, thus we are now stuck, having no idea what to do next. The author has emphasized getting rich is a process, a daily habit. This coincides with Confucius’ concept of daily “rituals,” which form self-cultivation, in which we become better and more competent individuals over time by practicing and retaining enriching habits every day. Confucius was the master of the art of getting better, and this principle was the reason why his system, Ruism, was preferred to Taoism and Buddhism and adopted by many feudal governments, because striving to become better versions of ourselves stimulated and boosted up trade and economic activities, whereas the other two systems were criticized for having less socio-economic values, for encouraging lack of efforts and advising people to accept whatever they are given instead of trying to improve themselves as well as their situations.

[ Ruism was so well-appreciated because it gave us a healthy reason to live: live to be better. With this, you are in a constant journey of living each of your day trying to be better, more skilled or more knowledgeable than yourself of yesterday. This is an intrinsic motivation, which means it does not depend on economics, trends, and external factors as much as most other activities.

So if young people complain to me they do not know how to live their life without fun and fancy trends, try “nhân, lễ, nghĩa, trí, tín” (originally designed for men, for both genders in modern time) and “tam tòng tứ đức, công dung ngôn hạnh” (specifically designed for women), and you will not be spared a minute to breathe or a day to get bored. ]

Both Confucius and Wattles have emphasized that these daily “rituals” do not have to be related to money making. To the latter, it is the daily practicing of gratitude and retaining the right and healthy mindset, as re-confirmed in this featured chapter. Regarding myself personally, I retain the habit, or “ritual,” of reading and learning something every day. On busy days, I read one or two things; whenever I have more spare time, I read a little bit more. This is the true meaning of “enriching,” and it is similar to an athlete or a martial artist practicing their moves and muscles every day: You get better – and certainly your money-making capabilities are increased this way or another – and accumulate more resources over time without knowing it.

The featured cartoon today is “Small Fry” (1939). Here Pink played a mischievous little fish who played truant (“trốn học”) to play billiards in adults’ clubs. He tried to copy adults’ unhealthy habits, including smoking, as shown in the featured images, just to look cool (Children do not imitate, please!). To me personally, this short cartoon shared a similar story and drew a similar conclusion to that of “Pinocchio,” that children should honor their parents and focus on their duty to study. And my biggest applause goes to Pink for his both superb and funny acting which made me laugh my a-ss off, because it was based a true story of his life, when he was a spoiled kid!

Regarding the featured song, it was amazing to see the pianist play it with multiple instruments by herself. Like the admin, she showed us that in order to go the long run, we must know one-hundred times more than what we share or sell out. Many young entertainers do not spend enough time building resources and just sell and show everything they have – a sure formula of failures, and it is no surprising they run out of magic within a short time.

The featured song – a hit song of past decades – was both lovely and humorously educational: You thought you were listening to a romantic love story until it was revealed by the end of the song the guy was actually dreaming all along, “dreaming my life away”; no action was taken, all the beautiful romance and promises were just dreams. This song is, I think, a suitable choice for today’s feature, as the little fish could have almost wasted his future as well as his life had he not put an end to his childish and unhealthy dreams: The muse produced the cartoon to memorize the lesson and remind himself not to sadden his parents like that again!

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*Tựa gốc: “The Science of Getting Rich” *Năm phát hành: 1910 *Tác giả: Wallace Delois Wattles *Dịch giả: ThS. Phan Nguyễn Khánh Đan, tháng 07/2016. [ DISCLAIMER ] This book is a product of its time…

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Regarding my most favourite part in this chapter, the author suggested that it would be easier for us to understand the world as well as what happened to it if we saw it as a living creature, or a human being, which had its different phases and moods. In this sense, the world we are living in is like a youngster who has passed his prime ages, filled with both good achievements and unthoughtful decisions and extravagance. It is time for him to stop taking and spending, to go slow and learn, it is suggested.

The featured images today are taken from “A Fresh Vegetable Mystery” (1939), another quality movie produced by Pink. It was a short comedy which, like a fable, used personified vegetables to talk about human beings. Pink played a (potato) police officer who was called to a case of missing (chili pepper) children. The 2D art was well-made; the story was filled with both comedy and horror elements, which were kept just enough to be friendly to children.

Up to this movie, the muse has shown us how well he designed and played animal and plant/vegetable characters. Notice the featured potato character of today: He had more than two eyes, and his look was based on a real potato. Those who have peeled and cooked potatoes know their “eyes” – the nodes where buds will grow, and potatoes with buds pushed out should not be cooked. All the characters in this movie were not mere vegetables drawn with human faces. The muse designed them with high anatomical precision, with a thorough understanding of plants’ life and anatomy. Moreover, he could step in the vegetables’ shoes and played them – something that few people could do.

As we have previous shared before, almost everything we see on the screen was based on truth, or the reality. What kind of real experience had helped the muse successfully play vegetable or plant characters with such high precision?

He had extensive experience in biology, botany as well as science in general. Together, he and I were not only Da Vinci. We were also Galilei, also Darwin. Many of Da Vinci’s sketches and artworks were dedicated to animals and plants, and Darwin was famous for his works on these living organisms. There we studied the animals and plants, “talked” to them, recorded their stories and embraced them. With so much hard work and heart, we were rewarded in our later lives. I have no difficulty reading, learning and regaining my competence in biology and botany as long as I am given the chance, whereas both Pink and my associated muse can choose to reincarnate as the living organisms we worked on, or reconstruct and play them in the fantasy realm.

Enjoy, and thanks for reading!

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*Tựa gốc: “The Science of Getting Rich” *Năm phát hành: 1910 *Tác giả: Wallace Delois Wattles *Dịch giả: ThS. Phan Nguyễn Khánh Đan, tháng 07/2016. [ DISCLAIMER ] This book is a product of its time…

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We work, we create to earn income to support ourselves. Doing things just to show off our status or wealth and “keep up with the Joneses” will not get us anything good – said by the author in this chapter. For a long time that attitude is common in the showbiz world and some other sectors; it is good or bad, I think the answer is obvious in this situation. To me personally, that path is not different from gambling once you go too far on it, and the consequence of gambling need not be repeated here.

Today’s featured work is “The Cobweb Hotel” (Paramount Pictures, 1936), a short animated movie made by the same muse who played King Midas in “The Golden Touch” tale. I adored this short film because it showed how creative he was. He managed to be an architect even in the fantasy world of insects: a cunning spider who designed a hotel with his spider-webs to trap flies. The hotel was simply an old and abandoned desk filled with spider-webs; its shelves were converted into rooms while the spider-webs were curtains. The whole composition looked as neat as any fine hotels we saw in the real world. I was astonished by the quality of the hand-drawn artworks, in which the hotel looked realistic, almost 3D to me, as shown in the final image. Like other works of this muse, this short film is a must-see for those who do creative jobs in my opinion; and if one would like to find creative and amazing ideas to do their designing jobs, this muse is among those that can be consulted.

He played both the villainous spider and the fly, the hero of this story. The fact that the fly was a “Flyweight Champion” was not only a pun, but it also reflected the muse’s past: He used to be a boxer, and had experienced both the good and the bitterness of this job. It was another job that taught him how difficult and bloody it was, literally, to earn just a penny to support your living. To help sell the book “The Science of Getting Rich,” he wrote it in a way that made readers think making money must be easy, whereas it had never been easy for him in the reality.

Enjoy, and thanks for reading!

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*Tựa gốc: “The Science of Getting Rich” *Năm phát hành: 1910 *Tác giả: Wallace Delois Wattles *Dịch giả: ThS. Phan Nguyễn Khánh Đan, tháng 07/2016. [ DISCLAIMER ] This book is a product of its time…

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The featured chapter today happens to continue a point left in the yesterday article: Being competent is never enough; it is one’s duty to yearn for and achieve improvements, otherwise the world would be an unlivable place. The last paragraphs, again, warn us of the danger of unhealthy competitions, in which one achieves success just to be superior to others. These are common in the business world and are associated with consequences.

The featured images are taken from a “Silly Symphony” episode named “The Golden Touch,” another folk tale that was part of my childhood due to the lessons it conveyed. The main character was a king obsessed with gold. After being granted magic, he could turn things into gold just by touching them. Everything seemed great until the king had dinner. Water became gold before he could drink it. The roasted chicken that looked so delicious became gold when he was about to eat it. He saw visions in which he ironically died on the pile of gold (and even his own skeleton was gold) because of starvation.

In many versions of the tale, the king had a daughter, played by my associated muse. His beloved daughter was turned into gold after being touched by him, and this was another climax that struck the king and made him change.

This muse was known for being the author of many books about how to make money and get rich, from “The Science of Getting Rich” to “The Robert Collier Letter Book” featuring his numerous sales letters which were written to persuade readers to spend extravagantly on buying products. With “The Golden Touch,” he honestly showed us his fear of poverty and his obsession with money, or gold in older times. We all need money to support our life, but what would happen if we failed to manage our money obsession and let it go too far?

“The Golden Touch” answered that question. When the king’s life was filled with nothing but gold, he had no food to eat, no water to drink, even his family (the daughter) was gone. This reminds me of our current situation, in which the business of properties and real estates takes the place of gold. There have been so many well-made houses, buildings and urban areas erected during the past decades; many people have got rich due to owning multi-million-dollar properties, but do we have enough cash to cater to our basic needs, like food?

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*Tựa gốc: “The Science of Getting Rich” *Năm phát hành: 1910 *Tác giả: Wallace Delois Wattles *Dịch giả: ThS. Phan Nguyễn Khánh Đan, tháng 07/2016. [ DISCLAIMER ] This book is a product of its time…

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A housewife did not feel happy because she was irrationally offended even though she was trying to do her best on the job she was doing. The author expressed his sympathy, suggesting her re-watch the featured “Silly Symphony” episode. Here Pinky, the third little pig who built his house with bricks, was mocked by his brothers even though he was doing the right thing: making sure his house was sturdy and enduring. He said this happened to him quite often in his real life.

That surprised her a little bit; she had thought someone who had to race to the top by working hard because he could not count on luck, because physical attractiveness was none of his advantages should not have many enemies. He said we did not have to be pretty or powerful to have haters or enemies. It is part of life and it is our duty to learn to accept and live with it. We cannot please everybody; similar to the message of the previous mini-feature (“Extract #31”), there are always a number of customers who do not buy your products no matter how well you persuade them, a number of people who do not like you no matter what you do.

The wolf is featured today because he is related to what we are talking about. In one of his images, he disguised himself as a salesman who sold brushes to lure the pigs into opening the door. This was a funny reference to Robert Collier as well as his past life as a salesman. In the twentieth century, the term “salesman” was used to describe these people who carried products and knocked at doors to persuade the potential customers face-to-face (tiếng Việt gọi là “nhân viên tiếp thị” hoặc “tiếp thị viên,” làm công việc gõ cửa từng nhà để chào hàng sản phẩm). It was very common to be rejected, and a penny earned was precious beyond any feelings that could be described by words.

Let’s take a look at Pinky. I took many screenshots showing him building his house with bricks and cement so that readers could see how skilled he was. You will agree with me that a person who had never had any experience in real building jobs could not direct these moments. I loved this tale and Pinky was one of my first childhood idols because the lesson conveyed was obviously useful and practical: A house that lasts, or a successful career, or a fulfilled life, must be started with a strong foundation and built brick-by-brick, or step-by-step, with care and patience.

[ “That kind of lesson is hardly found in the recent idol industry which is shaped by fancy values and filled by spirits who struggle with patience and are not given access to the technical and academic world as well as the world of traditional, grown-up and practical values due to their unsuitable lifestyle. The authentic world of technical and academic fields and institutions have been successfully built and maintained for thousands of years thanks to the keeping of certain trade secrets; it cannot be shared with those who are not patient enough to learn their arts and sciences, and those with turbulent lifestyles, in which every action of theirs is watched and shown off, every piece of knowledge, skill and secrets falling into their hands are leaked, copied en masse and sold to the public.” ]

Finally, by the end of the chapter, the author himself honestly and directly warned us of the danger of lack of patience: It pulls us back! This explains why impatient spirits fail to grow up, commit the same mistakes from time to time and fail to learn new things, fail to acquire new jobs or expertise no matter how much time has passed.

Enjoy, and thanks for reading!

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*Tựa gốc: “The Science of Getting Rich” *Năm phát hành: 1910 *Tác giả: Wallace Delois Wattles *Dịch giả: ThS. Phan Nguyễn Khánh Đan, tháng 07/2016. [ DISCLAIMER ] This book is a product of its time…

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In the featured images, Pink was also tortured by the hot weather in his neighbourhood like us; he decided to do something about it.

This is another chapter in which the author gave us a lot of general instructions, the same things that could be found in other self-help books, but refused to provide details and specific examples. This reminds me of Sun Tzu himself, who wrote “The Art of War” in the same manner.

Being a book author, or a translator like me, is no simple job as many may have thought. Book authors had to make sure their books fulfilled their given assignments, but at the same time they must not replace them. Sun Tzu wrote “The Art of War” to apply for a job; Wattles wrote “The Science of Getting Rich” under increasing pressure that it must generate as many sales as it could. Those who would like to execute what the books said must work with us to achieve the desired results; otherwise, the authors could have been killed, or disposed of this way or another, and had their names cleared from the history had other people been successful by using their books without their consultations.

The author of “The Magic of Emotional Appeal” (“Tử huyệt cảm xúc”) strangely disappeared from the business world after the success of the book. Perhaps it has brought him troubles rather than good things.

I agree with Wattles that success does not have to be something big. It comes from regular practice and accomplishing small tasks.

Finally, whether it was a big show or a small feature we have had yesterday, things come back to normal and our daily duties are resumed right after all the ephemeral parties and feelings are over. That’s life.

Enjoy, and thanks for reading!

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*Tựa gốc: “The Science of Getting Rich” *Năm phát hành: 1910 *Tác giả: Wallace Delois Wattles *Dịch giả: ThS. Phan Nguyễn Khánh Đan, tháng 07/2016. [ DISCLAIMER ] This book is a product of its time…

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Again, it has been admitted to you from the beginning that the author has written this book to trick readers into believing that success could be obtained effortlessly to maximize its sales. Therefore, please read his book with discretion, again!

In this chapter, the author did state that we must take action to fulfill our dreams. He spoke in a very generic way without particular examples and specific instructions, thus readers might have an impression that actions were little or not necessary at all after reading the book. However, if his words are scrutinized carefully, it is discovered that the author was a practical person by nature – something the admin strongly appreciates.

For examples: He does recommend that our dreams or ambitions should be within our reach, or within what the practical living world can handle, for all the success formulae to work; in other words, dreaming of things beyond our reach surely leads us to failures, disappointments and sorrow.

Also, he said human beings were not so much different from wildlife animals: We are the most productive when we work in our natural habitats. If we find ourselves working in the wrong place or doing the wrong job and cannot get anyone to help us to change them, we have to make the changes ourselves.

And my most favourite part is the footnote, the story of Fortunatus and its implications. Emotions cause you to take actions regardless of your living conditions, whereas reason gives you the ability to make judgments, know what you want and how much is enough. Unlike his sons, Fortunatus had a good life because he knew what he wanted and spent within what he was allowed. It is not a surprise when many high organizations are more closely associated with reason, which ensures stability and longevity better than emotions, which are notorious for their uncertainty and short lifespans.

[ “Living on reason is boring, but it is a survival strategy. We may be fed up with many exhausted hit songs and movies, but we still drink plain water and have plain bread (or rice) every day even though it is blatantly boring.” ]

Fear not, look at the featured muse: He acts on reason, but he is the blessing force behind many of the most successful comedians we have known and many classic tales we love. With reason, a comedian understands clearly what is serious, then he can infer what is entertaining to the public, and use this knowledge to do his job. In the featured images today, Pink replayed his own tale “Little Red Riding Hood” in “Pink Panther” language. And thank God, Le Corbusier did not bring Grandma’s pink house to the real world; otherwise, it could have caused numerous troubles due to being over-popular.

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*Tựa gốc: “The Science of Getting Rich” *Năm phát hành: 1910 *Tác giả: Wallace Delois Wattles *Dịch giả: ThS. Phan Nguyễn Khánh Đan, tháng 07/2016. [ DISCLAIMER ] This book is a product of its time…

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Regarding the featured chapter of “The Science of Getting Rich,” here are some messages on which I agree with the author and suggest that you can follow them:

- The dead cannot be brought back.

- Again, even this author emphasized that morality, self-esteem, love and families cannot flourish wherever business comes to play. In order to find true love or happiness, one has to be set free from the world of unhealthy competitions. One can only find what they long for in places where people develop and get rich by using their creative competence. And our suggested solution for this has been mentioned a lot of times in older articles: Set your own boundaries and private space, where you nourish your own creativity and values and practice authentic advice.

- One cannot attain success by being a people pleaser: Young idols are among examples that illustrate this: Many of them have been entitled international stars and celebrities that please the whole world, but look back, youngsters, can you pay for the cost that has been invested to help you reach such a status? The day you are able to earn your own income and build your own true home or family, is that possible anymore?
Same for corporations who have been spending huge (or almost unpayable) amount of investments on trying to become household names.

- By the end of the chapter, before repeating the formula, the author also shared his view on the belief in the world of the dead. Again, the fact that you believe in that world or not does not matter here. If you want to get rich or have a good life, take care of yourself and your business. The lady spirit who is running this place can be considered an example: She has won the hearts of influential men since antiquity, many of whom have been still after her up till now, because she chooses to take care of herself whatever happens. The fact that they are there or not, that they are powerful and important people, do not make her stray away from her established principles – still a Cinder-ella who wears humble clothes, does chores and works her way out. This is also the same principle that saves us from the consequence of lottery winning: spending the money on paying your unfinished debts and reasonable expenses, and retaining your values and life principles.

[ Success loves people who can deal with the responsibilities and pressure associated with them. Luck, as well as lottery winning chances, is the same. We want to find true love, or Mr. Right, we have to be strong enough to handle the price and troubles brought to you by those beings.

Get back to that lady and count how many times she has “won the lottery” in love and romance throughout the history. Fun facts about this lottery winning will be shared later in Mini-feature #153. ]

- You must be able to discover the TRUTH behind mere appearances – something that lady does very well.

The featured image shows borage, a species of flowers that I adore for being both pretty and useful. These flowers were mentioned more than once in my past articles about edible flowers. This is all of today, as we are in need of some quietness after the yesterday. Thank you for your understanding and see you tomorrow!

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– *Tựa gốc: “The Science of Getting Rich” *Năm phát hành: 1910 *Tác giả: Wallace Delois Wattles *Dịch giả: ThS. Phan Nguyễn Khánh Đan, tháng 07/2016. [ DISCLAIMER ] This book is a product of …

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Regarding the first important message of this chapter, the author may have used a kind of language that is unfamiliar to modern readers. It can be simply understood as: If you want to achieve something, it is you who will do it, it is you whom you should invest in, not anyone else.

In other words, if you think it is the job of someone else to make you successful or happy, that someone else must be responsible for your happiness, this is not good.

Beliefs like getting a wealthy man to bring you a fortune, happiness as well as anything you want, and forcing the children to make you proud are some other examples that go against the Original Substance. They badly affect your credit status in the world of universal laws.

The consequence of this message is that: You cannot attain success by taking others’ belongings – a little message I implied by the end of yesterday’s main feature. This is another form of forcing your will on others, and as Wattles said, it is no different from robbery. And according to universal laws, what is yours is yours, what is not yours will eventually come back to its original owner when the time comes. Thus, when one attains success by taking others’ achievements as well as engaging in unhealthy competitions, this success is doomed to be short-lived from the beginning.

The second message on which I totally agree with the author: The best way to be a good citizen is taking good care of yourself and enriching yourself. Difficulties can be conquered and a society can be improved when every member takes good care of themselves as well as every family develops mechanisms to protect itself from unhealthy influences, don’t you think?

The rest of this chapter was written in a controversial tone. Again, it seemed that the author tried to convince us that we could be happy just by doing some selfish thinking, that the world will become some kind of utopias once everybody attains success by using their own competence instead of taking others’ belongings. How true are these pieces of advice? Where will we go when competitions are gone?

Here is my personal opinion. As it was emphasized in previous chapters, this book was never meant to be understood by the mass. It was written for people who had understood the important of hard work, had certain knowledge of universal laws, and were sharp enough to decode the book properly, and more importantly, had started their journey and been doing fine for hundreds or thousands of years of their existence in the universe; naturally, there were very few people who had these qualities in the population. Thus, the number of people who could understand and follow the instructions in this book properly would always be low, always a minority. No need to worry about economic motivations being lacked!

This is all for today. My schedule is tight because some recent articles are quite long and difficult, and I am working on some drawings. During this time, please appreciate all articles and models presented to you and contemplate their stories as equally as you can. Thank you for understanding!

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– *Tựa gốc: “The Science of Getting Rich” *Năm phát hành: 1910 *Tác giả: Wallace Delois Wattles *Dịch giả: ThS. Phan Nguyễn Khánh Đan, tháng 07/2016. [ DISCLAIMER ] This book is a product of …

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Again, do not be fooled by the later part of this chapter, where the book author tricked us into believing that success could be attained just by sitting and thinking of it. But the overall message was good: He emphasized the importance of productive communication. Most people cannot make themselves heard due to communication issues.

Truthfulness plays a part here. In some previous chapters, he insisted on thinking truthfully and staying true to yourself. Why is this important? One of the worst fears of the invisible forces, as well as God (if you believe in his existence), is to have their messages miscommunicated and distorted, leading to misunderstandings and other unwanted consequences. Good forces prefer to work with honest and truthful individuals because they convey the messages in a way that is close to the original, in ways they should be presented, or at least do not hurt or harm. And we know that these qualities, in their purer forms, are rare in the business world, where miscommunication, distorted and offensive messages and sarcasm are common.

To continue the cow tale entry, we reap what we sow – a message that Wattles has also insisted on throughout this book. We invest in ephemeral values, we reap ephemeral profits, which do not last long as a rule of nature. If we want to reap practical values that last, something must be changed during the investment process.

Shaun the sheep could keep his series running for many seasons because he tried to stay ordinary as much as he could, managing his resources like a book-keeper and sharing a “just-enough” amount of creativity in each episode. A real entertainer he blessed, Wallace H. from Taiwan, had his peak successful time double or triple that of recent young idols due to that strategy despite being an idol singer and actor associated with uncontrollable fan hype, too. That’s what a good parent should do with their “bad-luck” kid, a good agency should do with their overhyped idols: trying to keep their life ordinary, I think. We cannot change their “bad-luck” fate, which is pre-destined in most of the cases, but we can keep their resources under control in a mindful manner, manage these resources economically like Shaun did, so that the youngsters could enjoy the quality of life and live their life to the fullest.

We know the new device was given to us to serve a special purpose. We admit we *honestly* cannot do this. We have never been married before, so there has been no new *real* story since we parted ways. Their portfolio after that was managed by other agents, and the admin has given you the list and returned them back to their original owners yesterday. Without real experience, there’s no resource to build fantasies to serve the showbiz and entertainment world – this is why things run out to zero, then breakup and turbulence, and then nothingness (the entertainers being “dead” even though they still breathe, work, hard-working and competent as before – a consequence desired by no one) after the weddings. So we accept going back to hand-written articles and my old laptop - things we can manage, old and shabby, slow but sure, and they are ours. To an old woman, things that are hers, not having to be shared with anyone, not disrupting her cosy home, and stay by her side to the end of the world, are the best.

We slipped out a name yesterday, Alexander the Great, a historic idol that got real competence, won real and consecutive victories, and stayed classic and timeless instead of being ephemeral like modern young idols. This person refused to come out without his mother, Olympias; this will be a double feature that takes more time than usual. That’s why I have not been able to manage it yet in these tight conditions.

Thank you for reading.

. *Tựa gốc: “The Science of Getting Rich” *Năm phát hành: 1910 *Tác giả: Wallace Delois Wattles *Dịch giả: ThS. Phan Nguyễn Khánh Đan, tháng 07/2016. [ DISCLAIMER ] This book is a product of its ti…

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