German composition

Section 5 Wealth⁠1

Wealth, after all⁠2, is⁠3 but a relative thing: for he who has⁠4 little, and wants⁠5 still less, is richer than he who has much, and wants still more.—Rev. C. Cotton.

Notes

1 wealth, Reichtum, m., see S. 3, N. 2.

2 after all... but, doch immer nur; a — thing, etwas Relatives.

3 When the subject, which may be preceded by its attributes, occupies the first place in a principal clause, either the copula or the verb must follow immediately.

4 to have = to possess.

5 ‘to want’, here bedürfen.