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Keep the Aspidistra Flying

George Orwell

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• _Title:_ Keep the Aspidistra Flying _Date of first publication:_ 1936 _Author:_ George Orwell (1903-1950) _Date first posted:_ Nov. 14, 2018 _Date last updated:_ Nov. 14, 2018 Faded Page eBook #20181120
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• GEORGE ORWELL
• _Keep the_ _Aspidistra_ _Flying_
• Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money.
• I CORINTHIANS XIII (_adapted_) Copyright 1936 by Eric Blair
• [The end of _Keep the Aspidistra Flying_ by George Orwell]