When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences–their insignificant, everyday experiences–so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others–and how many there are!–are driven through surging waves of destiny, the most multifarious currents of the times and the nations, and yet always remain on top, bobbing like a cork, then we are in the end tempted to divide mankind into a minority (a minimality) of those who know how to make much of little, and a majority of those who know how to make little of much.

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