German composition

Section 5. WEALTH⁠[1].

Reading edition

Section 5. WEALTH⁠[1].

Wealth, after all⁠[2], is⁠[3] but a relative thing: for he who has⁠[4] little, and wants⁠[5] still less, is richer than he who has much, and wants still more.—Rev. C. Cotton.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · wealth, Reichtum, m., see S. 3, N. 2.Note 2 · after all ... but, doch immer nur; a — thing, etwas Relatives.Note 3 · When the subject, which may be preceded by its attributes, occupies the first place in a principal clause, either the copula or the verb mus Note 4 · to have = to possess.Note 5 · ‘to want’, here bedürfen.