The writer of "The Instinct that Makes People Rich" interprets the Midas myth as the story of a man who could not fail.
Chesterton, however, says that Midas DID fail. He starved because he could not eat gold.
Chesterton says that success always comes at the sacrifice of something else, something "domestic." (By this he means that, yes, a millionaire has money but will lack something else, like love or friendship, etc.) He says that people who think Midas succeeded are just like the author of the article -- both worship money.
Chesterton says that worshipping money has nothing to do with success and everything to do with snobbery.
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"He stopped, afraid he might blow fire out with a single breath. But the fire was right there and he approached it warily, from a long way off. It took the better part of fifteen minutes before he drew very close indeed to it, and then he stood looking at it from cover. That small motion, the white and red color, a strange fire because it meant a different thing to him
. It was not burning. It was waring. . .He hadn't known fire could look this way. He had never thought in his life that it could give as well as take. Even its smell was different."
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It was pretty astonishing that this quote demonstrates how Guy Montag finds what he'd been lacking all along in a small fire he'd created for warmth. Montag had a fascination for destroying everything he could get his hands on by bruning it. But now he was seeing it from a different perspective. He could now see what he had been missing since the beginning. Guy Montag, one of the killers of this, started to understand that burning wasn't the solution, but the problem in this little world surrounded by a belief in killing off knowledge and reality.
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. if you are at any time obliged to enter an argument, give your reasons with the utmost candor and modesty, two qualities which will scarcely ever fail to make an impression upon your hearers.”
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