For riches are not forever: and does the crown endure to every generation?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Generation. Thou wilt be cited as an example of prudence, if thou hast forseen the change of thy affairs, and provided for it. In the east it was not unusual to see a general of an army reduced to the meanest condition, and economy is necessary for all.