The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is out of print ):

[wottagal]

Would you stop going on about that? I heard you loud and clear the first six hundred times. This is why I always say you take what you want, when you want it. Serves you right for waffling around like that.

Not that I see why you'd wanna read about that sorry old sop's life anyway, mind you. 'Course he probably had a lot of adventures, did a lotta stupid, brave stunts, had to beat impossible odds and rush headlong into dangers that woulda send most men screaming and he still came out on top every time...

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Shut your trap. I don't want to read your Companion copy.

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[wottagal]

[Looks him up and down critically. Eh, she's seen bigger guys. Gorthan's probably the purplest, though.]

Yeah? And why would a fella like you be interested in him?

[shakespearealien]

He is a very powerful and influential duck. Learning of his origins and how he was able to build his fortune would no doubt prove a fascinating experience.

[wottagal]

Well, I happen to know enough about him that you won't need the book to find out: he must've earned it by continuing to be a greedy cheapskate his whole life.

[And maybe there was something about honest hard work somewhere in there...]

[shakespearealien]

You cannot know for sure. He might have changed since the time you knew him.

[wottagal]

And still end up as filthy stinkin' rich as I hear he does? Just how would that work, tall purple and thoughtful?

[shakespearealien]

There is always more than one way to accomplish anything. But you have lived a tough life, have you not? Even so, it's something you should not forget.

[wottagal]

My life's none of your business, handsome. [All this understanding is wasted on her, Gorthan.] And there could be a hundred ways - I'll still believe it when I see it that he earned that fortune doing anything but obsessing over it.