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| The Plutocrat |
| In my wanderings I
once saw upon an island a man-headed, iron-hoofed monster who ate of the
earth and drank of the sea incessantly. And for a long while I watched
him. Then I approached him and said, "Have you never enough; is
your hunger never satisfied and your thirst never quenched?" And he answered saying, "Yes, I am satisfied, nay, I am weary of eating and drinking; but I am afraid that tomorrow there will be no more earth to eat and no more sea to drink." |
