<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342887" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Political Economy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I beg you to note,' said a Man to a Goose,<br>As he plucked from her bosom the plumage all loose,<br>'That pillows and cushions of feathers and beds<br>As warm as maids' hearts and as soft as their heads,<br>Increase of life's comforts the general sum<br>Which raises the standard of living.' 'Come, come,'<br>The Goose said, impatiently, 'tell me or cease,<br>How that is of any advantage to geese.'<br>'What, what!' said the man-'you are very obtuse!<br>Consumption no profit to those who produce?<br>No good to accrue to Supply from a grand<br>Progressive expansion, all round, of Demand?<br>Luxurious habits no benefit bring<br>To those who purvey the luxurious thing?<br>Consider, I pray you, my friend, how the growth<br>Of luxury promises-' 'Promises,' quoth<br>The sufferer, 'what?-to what course is it pledged<br>To pay me for being so often defledged?'<br>'Accustomed'-this notion the plucker expressed<br>As he ripped out a handful of down from her breast<br>'To one kind of luxury, people soon yearn<br>For others and ever for others in turn;<br>And the man who to-night on your feathers will rest,<br>His mutton or bacon or beef to digest,<br>His hunger to-morrow will wish to assuage<br>By dining on goose with a dressing of sage.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342887" data-title="Political Economy de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="'I beg you to note,' said a Man to a Goose, As he plucked from her bosom the plumage all loose, 'That pillows and cushions of feathers and beds As warm as maids' hearts and as soft as their heads, Increase of life's comforts the general sum Which ..."></div> </div> </div>

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