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Invisible Fortune                                         By Ofelio Chen                                Contents

There was a travel ship; it was navigating in the ocean. There was a rich man and a wise man sitting with passengers on the top of the ship, watching and enjoying the sight o f sea. The rich man wanted to show his wealth and took all of his pearls, gold, silver, treasure and money out to showed to the other passengers. All the passengers were admiring him for the fortune he owned. They thought he was the richest one among them.

But only one Person didn’t agree with them, he was the wise man. He said he was the richest one among them. He also said the bad thing was he couldn’t show his fortune to them. All of the people laughed at him. They thought the wise man was lying.

One day when they traveled in the ocean, they met a pirate ship. The pirates took all of the rich man’s fortunes and ran away. The rich man became penniless at once. When their ship got into the seaport, the rich man became a beggar and asked for money on the street for a living. On the contrary, the wise man was a well- known person. Many people wanted him to be their teacher. One day the beggar met the wise man on the street. He told to him, “I absolutely agree with you. Knowledge is the best thing; you can own anything.”

Knowledge is the only thing in the world nobody can rob you of. Many people can have many fortunes, but not many people have knowledge and wisdom.

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