<Dl> <Dd> the rich get richer and the poor get--children! </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> the rich get richer and the poor get--children! </Dd> <P> The character Gatsby orders the character Klipspringer, sitting at the piano, "Don't talk so much, old sport...Play!" and Klipspringer breaks into the Whiting, Kahn and Egan song . </P> <P> Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty - First Century (2014) presents a body of empirical data spanning several hundred years that supports his central thesis that the owners of capital accumulate wealth more quickly than those who provide labour, a phenomenon widely described with the term "the rich - get - richer". </P>

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