Motif
Unused hoarded wealth is equivalent to worthless substitute
unused_hoarded_wealth_is_equivalent_to_worthless_substitute
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Wisdom Teaching and Moral Instruction. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE CROW AND THE RAVEN / THE WITCH / THE OLD MAN AND DEATH / THE MISER; lines 5010-5026 confidence: high
The neighbour says to put a brick in the hole and look at it daily, because the gold was of no earthly use to him.
The neighbour explicitly argues that a brick would serve as well as the buried gold because the miser never used the gold.
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