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244 And again:

And once again:

"Yet what have folk like me to do with money? Folk whose final fate is such as this? Positively my best course, now that property is gone, is to withdraw to the forest. As the proverb says:

And I continued my reflections: "Yes, the curse of beggary is dreadful as death. For

And as for beggary: It is the shrine of wretchedness,
 * The dwelling-place of tears,