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So to those wicked enough to ask the gods for everything at once, they refuse the more justly even the prayers of a single day.

Sic qui cuncta deos uno male tempore poscunt,
iustius his etiam vota diurna negant.

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XXXIII. De Ansere Ova Aurea Pariente ('The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs')

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