Clunic has three cows, but they are thin; Nicclu has only two, but they are fat.

Which is the richer, Clunic or Nicclu?
The signs of opulence are deceitful.

What is certain is that everyone eats and drinks.

Tax people according to what they consume.

That would be wisdom and it would be justice." Thus spoke Morio amid the applause of the Elders.
"I ask that this speech be graven on bronze," cried the monk, Bulloch.
"It is spoken for the future; in fifteen hundred years the best of the Penguins will not speak otherwise." The Elders were still applauding when Greatauk, his hand on the pommel of his sword, made this brief declaration: "Being noble, I shall not contribute; for to contribute is ignoble.