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conversation

with

Scott:-"It

occurs to

me," I

observed,

"that

people are

apt to

make too

much fuss

about the

loss of

fortune,

which is

one of the

smallest

of the

great

evils of

life, and

ought to

be among

the most

tolerable."--"Do

you call

it a small

misfortune

to be

ruined in

money-matters?"

he asked.

"It is not

so

painful,

at all

events, as

the loss

of

friends."--"I

grant

that," he

said. "As

the loss

of

character?"--"True

again."

"As the

loss of

health?"--"Ay,