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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Envy And Avarice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Envy and Avarice, one summer day,<br>Sauntering abroad<br>In quest of the abode<br>Of some poor wretch or fool who lived that way--<br>You--or myself, perhaps--I cannot say--<br>Along the road, scarce heeding where it tended,<br>Their way in sullen, sulky silence wended;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, though twin sisters, these two charming creatures,<br>Rivals in hideousness of form and features,<br>Wasted no love between them as they went.<br>Pale Avarice,<br>With gloating eyes,<br>And back and shoulders almost double bent,<br>Was hugging close that fatal box<br>For which she's ever on the watch<br>Some glance to catch<br>Suspiciously directed to its locks;<br>And Envy, too, no doubt with silent winking<br>At her green, greedy orbs, no single minute<br>Withdrawn from it, was hard a-thinking<br>Of all the shining dollars in it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The only words that Avarice could utter,<br>Her constant doom, in a low, frightened mutter,<br>'There's not enough, enough, yet in my store!'<br>While Envy, as she scanned the glittering sight,<br>Groaned as she gnashed her yellow teeth with spite,<br>'She's more than me, more, still forever more!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus, each in her own fashion, as they wandered,<br>Upon the coffer's precious contents pondered,<br>When suddenly, to their surprise,<br>The God Desire stood before their eyes.<br>Desire, that courteous deity who grants<br>All wishes, prayers, and wants;<br>Said he to the two sisters: 'Beauteous ladies,<br>As I'm a gentleman, my task and trade is<br>To be the slave of your behest--<br>Choose therefore at your own sweet will and pleasure,<br>Honors or treasure!<br>Or in one word, whatever you'd like best.<br>But, let us understand each other--she<br>Who speaks the first, her prayer shall certainly<br>Receive--the other, the same boon _redoubled!_'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imagine how our amiable pair,<br>At this proposal, all so frank and fair,<br>Were mutually troubled!<br>Misers and enviers, of our human race,<br>Say, what would you have done in such a case?<br>Each of the sisters murmured, sad and low<br>'What boots it, oh, Desire, to me to have<br>Crowns, treasures, all the goods that heart can crave,<br>Or power divine bestow,<br>Since still another must have always more?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So each, lest she should speak before<br>The other, hesitating slow and long<br>Till the god lost all patience, held her tongue.<br>He was enraged, in such a way,<br>To be kept waiting there all day,<br>With two such beauties in the public road;<br>Scarce able to be civil even,<br>He wished them both--well, not in heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Envy at last the silence broke,<br>And smiling, with malignant sneer,<br>Upon her sister dear,<br>Who stood in expectation by,<br>Ever implacable and cruel, spoke<br>'I would be blinded of _one_ eye!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+Hugo">Victor Hugo</a><div class=q>
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Sauntering abroad
In quest of the abode
Of some poor wretch or fool who lived that way--
You--or myself, perhaps--I cannot say--
Along the road, scarce heeding where it tended,
Their way in sullen, sulky silence w..."></div>
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