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There is a French allegory that points to a moral worth remembering. The Vicious Circle. A portrait painter sat in his favorite cafe, sipping his wine. A wealthy builder had just given him an order to paint his portrait. His small bottle finished, he was about to order another, when his eye fell on a headline in The Figaro, "Flard Times Are Coming."

So, instead of ordering his second bottle of wine, he called for his check.

"Is there anything wrong with the wine?" asked the landlord.

"The wine is good, but I did not order the second bottle because hard times are coming and we must economize," explained the artist.

'illard times," said the landlord. "Then my wife must not order the silk dress we planned, but must take one of cotton."

"flard times," repeated the dressmaker when the order was cancelled. "This is no time to expand; I must not make the improvement I had planned in this place."

"Hard times," said the builder, when the dressmaker

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cancelled the building plans. "Then I cannot have my portrait painted." So he wrote the artist and cancelled the order.

After receiving the letter the artist went again to his favorite cafe and ordered a small bottle of wine to soothe him.

On a nearby chair was the same paper he had read. He picked it up and looked at it more closely.

It was two years old.

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