Spend Your Last Dollar Like a King
"I do not see," remarked Colonel Ingersoll, "how it is possible for a man to die worth $5,000,000 or $10,000,000 in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that and hold in the clutches of his hand $20,000,000 or $30,000,000 is past my comprehension. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber when hundreds and thousands were drowning in the sea. If you have but a dollar in the world, and you have got to spend it, spend it like a king; spend it as if it were a dry leaf and you the owner of unbounded forests. That's the way to spend it! I would rather be a beggar and spend my last dollar like a king than be a king and spend my money like a beggar."