Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served from the field.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Money. Avarice is like a dropsy, (Calmet) or poison, infecting all the person. (Sallust.)
The miser is the slave, and not the possessor, of his riches, (St. Chrysostom) like Tantalus, who could not drink, though in the midst of waters. (Horace, i. Sat. 1.)
Nescis quo valeat nummus, quem præbeat usum.
