2 If you have enough Money, you can make every one of the senses jump up and down with joy.
3 aIf you have enough Money, you can fill your ears with beautiful music, from dawn to dawn.
4 bIf you have enough Money, you can fill your mouth with exquisite delicacies, and never taste the same thing twice.
5 cIf you have enough Money, you can fill your nose with the most exotic and tempting aromas, and then you can give in to every one of your temptations.
6 dIf you have enough Money, you can fill your eyes with beauty, and then you can take its clothes off with your teeth, if that's what you want to do.
7 eIf you have enough Money, you can cover your skin with miraculous sensations, and no one will send the police to tell you to stop it.
8 Yea, if more men could afford Pleasure, they would learn to turn away from the cold and heartless god called Money.
CHAPTER 471 How marvelous it is to awaken on a fine bright morning, and embark on a new round of pleasure!
2 fOf course, poor men know nothing of this, and they awaken each morning in dread of the suffering to come.
3 gThey drink their coffee from cheap cups, and they anticipate the scorn and rejection and drudgery that will make the day last forever.
4 hThey dress themselves in ill-fitting ready-made clothes, and they know that no beautiful woman will ever look at them twice.
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5 iTruly, they know nothing of pleasure, and time is their jailer; each new moment brings them one moment closer to next week's humiliations, and next month's bills, and next year's privations.
6 jOnly the Master of Money can conquer time: For when each new moment brings fresh pleasures, then time has no power to preempt the joys of right now; and right now can become a heaven of thoughtless ecstasy that never ends.
CHAPTER 481 kWho appreciates a sunset more than the Master of Money? He stands at eventide with all the luster and immovable majesty of the North Star.
2 lThe very universe wheels around his own whims; all day long, the machinery of lesser lights has accommodated itself to his movements.
3 mIf some cog has failed to do its work properly, then the Master of Money has caused it to be thrown away.
4 nIf some offering to his highness has failed to give pleasure, then the Master of Money has caused it to suffer, a lot, which is a pleasure of its own, without equal in any universe.
5 If some aspect of the day ended has been less than perfect, then the Master of Money will buy a better tomorrow; for ohe is the center of his universe, and the sun will bring him a new playground without being asked.
6 pAnd even before tomorrow comes, there will be tonight; and there is no end of the things that the Master of Money can do tonight.
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