Dorothy west's fable the richer and poorer when was the fable written?

Yes

From the story's penultimate paragraph: Bess said, "To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live. Don't count the years that are left us. At our time of life it's the days...

The theme is... You have every right to save what you've earned, but it is also acceptable to get things of pleasure to make yourself or others happy.

Aesop.

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