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Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
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Verse 9. 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, (Saint John Chrysostom) like Tantalus, who could not drink, though in the midst of waters. Hor. i. Sat. 1.—Nescis quo valeat nummus, quem præbeat usum.
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