While her parents prepared the house and a rich dinner for some guests from out of town, a child ran out into the fields to play. As she left the house, her parents warned her that she didn’t have much time and needed to be clean and dressed nicely for the occasion.
When her parents called her home, she had grass-stained knees, sand and dirt in her hair and on her face and hands, and mud on her shoes.
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After working years beyond normal retirement age, a wealthy man reportedly worth billions had announced that he was stepping down from managing his company, his life’s work, and handing it over to others. He was known to have a massive vault in the local bank.
The man had but one grandchild, a teenager who had showed a keen mind and interest for entrepreneurship. The grandson asked him about the fortune stored in the vault and conjectured about how much money must be kept in a place that size—stacks and stacks of thousand-dollar bills, no doubt. The young man’s eyes gleamed as he speculated.
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