/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2781381]

Then again, not to pass over the matter with a smile Like some wit - though what stops one telling the truth While smiling, as teachers often give children biscuits To try and tempt them to learn their alphabet? - No: joking aside, let’s turn to more serious thoughts: The farmer turning the heavy clay with sturdy plough, The rascally shopkeeper, the soldier, the sailor Who boldly sails the seas, all say they only do so So as to retire in true idleness when they are old, Having made a pile: just as their exemplar
The tiny labouring ant drags all she can together,
Adding what’s in her mouth to the heap she’s building, Neither ignorant of nor careless of her tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.2781382]

>>2781381
Though as soon as Aquarius freezes the turning year, Wise creature that she is, she no longer forages, Using instead what she gathered, while nothing stops you, Nothing deflects you from riches, not scorching heat, fire Winter, sword or sea, while there’s a man richer than you. Yet what good is all that mass of silver and gold to you, If, fearful, you bury it secretly in some hole in the ground? ‘If I broke into it,’ you say, ‘ it would all be gone, to the last Brass farthing.’ Yet if you don’t what’s the point of your pile? Though you’ve threshed a hundred thousand measures of corn That won’t make your stomach hold any more than mine: Just like the chain-gang where carrying the heavy bread-bag Over your shoulder won’t gain you more than the slave Who lifts nothing. Tell me then, what difference to the man Who lives within Nature’s bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred Acres or a thousand? ‘But it’s sweet to take from a big heap.’ Even so why praise your granaries more than our bins, So long as we’re able to draw as much from the smaller? It’s as if though you needed no more than a jug of water, Or a single cup, you said: ‘I’d rather have the same amount From some vast river rather than this little spring.’ That’s why Raging Aufidus sweeps away riverbanks, and all those Who delight in owning more than their fair share of wealth. But the man who desires only as much as he needs, Won’t drink muddy water, or lose his life in the flood.

[Anonymous No.2781383]

>>2781381
Not sure if you expected me to read that but I am too busy looking at whoever this girl is. Pick a better image next time; one not so distracting

[Anonymous No.2781384]

>>2781382
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.2781397]

>don't take more than you need

thanks for lesson, mum. say hi to capitalism for me

[Anonymous No.2781402]

>>2781381
Who's the boy? He's cute.

[Anonymous No.2781419]

>>2781397
dat comprehension deficit. murrikuh strikes again