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Anonymous Fri Jan 11 18:46:43 2019 No.12389942 [Reply] [Original]

What is the quintessential rags-to-riches story?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 18:47:13 2019 No.12389949 >>12389942 The Great Gatsby

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 18:48:49 2019 No.12389962 American Psycho

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 18:50:23 2019 No.12389971 >>12389962 He was born rich, wasn't he?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 18:50:50 2019 No.12389974 >>12389942 Horatio Algiers invented the genre anon

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 18:51:13 2019 No.12389978 >>12389942 Barry Lyndon

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 18:51:54 2019 No.12389982 >>12389942 my diary unironically

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 18:53:39 2019 No.12389990 >>12389942 The Count of Monte Cristo - how has no one said this yet?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 19:06:42 2019 No.12390053 Pere Goriot

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 19:07:53 2019 No.12390064 >>12389942 Tragically, not my diary this time desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 19:54:43 2019 No.12390318 >>12389990 This

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>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 20:03:12 2019 No.12390359 Great Expectations

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 20:19:08 2019 No.12390434 >>12390359 This, Dickens is the quintessential bildungsroman author. Only challenged by Jude the Obscure.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 20:22:29 2019 No.12390449 >>12389942 Genesis.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 20:24:29 2019 No.12390459 >>12389942 Catcher in the rye

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 20:28:24 2019 No.12390481 >>12390434 This

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 20:29:46 2019 No.12390486 >>12389942 Cinderella, literally

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 20:30:17 2019 No.12390490 >>12389971 idiot

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 20:33:27 2019 No.12390516 >>12390486 Good answer, this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 20:44:58 2019 No.12390583 >>12389990 came to post this

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 20:48:53 2019 No.12390602 File: 89 KB, 595x335, 20131019_EUP003_0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12389942 The History of the Catholic Church

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 11 20:52:26 2019 No.12390627 >>12390053 Truth. Also many riches to rags stories for contrast.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 06:04:43 2019 No.12392728 >>12389942 The Doll

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 06:06:55 2019 No.12392732 >>12390602 I want to put a bullet in this smug faggots head. I fucking hate rich people and I fucking hate The Church. Look at this asshole. Look at this fucking asshole.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 06:47:11 2019 No.12392811 >>12389942 War and Peace but only read the Pierre parts

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 07:01:21 2019 No.12392839 >>12392732 Ah, the speech of envy. I don't hear it in myself so it's refreshing to get it somewhere. It soothes me to know that there are those who hate good things because they know they themselves are detached from them.

Anonymous Sat Jan 12 07:33:07 2019 No.12392920

>>12392839
It's not envy, it's knowing these animals live with greater luxury than 90% of their fellow race BECAUSE of their exploitation of and deprivation of the others. That's why I hate the rich.

But then the Catholic Church is the rich hiding behind a moral mask, a perversion of Christ's teachings, and a smug self-congratulating, self-absolution. These people are the absolute worst human beings who ever walked the earth and are held up as moral beings, by not only their cohorts, but also the very peasantry which they are responsible for. and they dress like fags

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 07:56:08 2019 No.12392970 >>12389942 Jay-Z

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 08:02:53 2019 No.12392986 >>12392920 The Catholic church has given more to charity than you can even hope to give 0.0001% of. How about you get off your lazy ass and get a job instead of being envious of people who contribute to society?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 08:08:41 2019 No.12392998 >>12389942 Mike Tyson’s diary desu

Anonymous Sat Jan 12 08:09:41 2019 No.12393002
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>>12392920
A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.

The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it. The first time he jumped he missed it by a long way. So he walked off a short distance and took a running leap at it, only to fall short once more. Again and again he tried, but in vain.

Now he sat down and looked at the grapes in disgust.

"What a fool I am," he said. "Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for."

And off he walked very, very scornfully.

There are many who pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 09:19:42 2019 No.12393156 >>12389942 Sneed's Feed and Seed (Formally Chuck's)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 09:41:01 2019 No.12393240 The Red and the Black by Stendhal

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 10:22:03 2019 No.12393400 >>12393156 Rich's Sich and Fich (Formally Poor)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 10:41:31 2019 No.12393471 >>12392811 Pierre was hardly in rags by the time he comes upon his fortune though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 12:03:08 2019 No.12393881 More of a backwoods orphan to president story, but anything about Andrew Jackson is interesting. Highly recommend American lion, especially concerning his similarities to Trump.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 12:07:21 2019 No.12393896 Any great Riches to Rags stories?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 12:10:22 2019 No.12393915 >>12393896 Mike Tyson’s diary desu

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 12:15:33 2019 No.12393955 File: 176 KB, 317x273, thmw.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12389942 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yke9BhP1uks

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 12 12:21:54 2019 No.12393993 File: 816 KB, 528x555, 1534369379012.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12389942 Beggar - Thief - Warrior - King

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