The clever cheat cannot achieve ultimate happiness by cheating. The clever cheat succeeds only in getting what the crane did from the crab.

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I suspect the heap of gold and golden chains is where the house-born slave Nandaka stands yelling curses.

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Fine, let me fall head over heels into hell, but I shall not do what is ignoble. Please accept my alms offering.

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