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Speaker 2: Fortune and the Beggar. One day, a ragged beggar was

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Speaker 2: creeping along from house to house. He carried an old

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Speaker 2: wallet in his hand and was asking at every door

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Speaker 2: for a few cents to buy something to eat. As

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Speaker 2: he was grumbling at his lot, he kept wondering why

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Speaker 2: it was that folks who had so much money were

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Speaker 2: never satisfied, but were always wanting more. Here said, he

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Speaker 2: is the master of this house. I know him well.

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Speaker 2: He was always a good business man, and he made

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Speaker 2: himself wondrously rich a long time ago. Oh, had he

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Speaker 2: been wise, he would have stopped. Then he would have

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Speaker 2: turned over his business to someone else, and then he

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Speaker 2: could have spent the rest of his life in ease.

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Speaker 2: But what did he do? Instead? He built ships and

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Speaker 2: sent them to sea to trade with foreign lands. He

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Speaker 2: thought he would get mountains of gold, but there were

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Speaker 2: great storms on the water, his ships were wrecked, and

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Speaker 2: his riches were swallowed up by the waves. Now all

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Speaker 2: his hopes lie at the bottom of the sea, and

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Speaker 2: his great wealth has vanished. There are many such cases.

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Speaker 2: Men seemed to never be satisfied unless they gained the

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Speaker 2: whole world. As for me, if I had only enough

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Speaker 2: to eat and to wear, I would not want anything more.

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Speaker 2: Just at that moment, Fortune came down the street. She

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Speaker 2: saw the beggar and stopped. She said to him, listen,

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Speaker 2: I have long wished to help you. Hold your wallet,

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Speaker 2: and I will pour this gold into it, but only

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Speaker 2: on this condition. All that falls into the wallet shall

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Speaker 2: be pure gold. But every piece that falls upon the

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Speaker 2: ground shall become dust. Do you understand. Oh, yes, I understand,

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Speaker 2: said the beggar. Then have a care, said Fortune. Your

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Speaker 2: wallet is old, so do not load it too heavily.

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Speaker 2: The beggar was so glad that he could hardly wait.

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Speaker 2: He quickly opened his wallet and a stream of yellow

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Speaker 2: dollars poured into it. The wallet grew heavy. Is that enough,

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Speaker 2: asked Fortune? Not yet? Isn't it cracking? Never fear? The

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Speaker 2: beggar's hands began to tremble. Ah, if the golden stream

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Speaker 2: would only pour forever, you are the richest man in

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Speaker 2: the world. Now, just a little more, had just a

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Speaker 2: handful or two. There, it's full. The wallet will burst,

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Speaker 2: but it will hold a little. Just a little more,

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Speaker 2: Another piece was added, and the wallet split. The treasure

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Speaker 2: fell upon the ground and was turned to dust. Fortune

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Speaker 2: had vanished. The beggar had now nothing but his empty wallet,

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Speaker 2: and it was torn from top to bottom. He was

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Speaker 2: as poor as before.