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Lesson Seven The Model Millionaire (I) Oscar Wilde 　　 　　1 Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. [1010:32] Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. [1201:38; 1107:35; 1101:34; 0610:45; 0504:44] The poor should be practical and ordinary. It is better to have a permanent income than to be attractive. These are the great truths of modern life which Hughie Erskine never realised. Poor Hughie! Intellectually, we must admit, he was not of much importance. [0410:43] He never said a clever or even an ill-natured thing in his life. But t