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Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

Fortune and the Beggar 💰

Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

Sleep Tight Media

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.22.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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"Just a little more......more....." Wisdom teaches us when to say, "Enough."

The lesson in this fable written by Ivan Kirloff is for us not to be greedy. Fortune and the Beggar was originally published in January 1909.

Sleep Tight!,
Sheryl & Clark

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Hello friends and welcome to sleep tight stories.

0:15.0

I have a message today for your parents and guardians

0:18.8

just before we start our story.

0:24.0

We'd like to ask you to please consider becoming a member on our Patreon page.

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Patreon is a membership app and website that allows you to support our work in providing

0:39.5

calming bedtime stories to children of all ages.

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In return, you will continue to receive ad-free stories,

0:51.0

extra and exclusive content, and more.

0:57.8

Please visit us at Patreon.

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com slash Sleep Tight Stories. Fortune and the beggar.

1:20.0

One day a ragged beggar was creeping along from house to house.

1:27.0

He carried an old wallet in his hand and was asking at every door for a few cents to buy something to eat.

1:35.0

As he was grumbling at his lot, he kept wondering why it was that folks who had so much money were never satisfied, but were always wanting more.

1:47.0

Here, said he, is the master of this house.

1:51.2

I know him well. He was always a good businessman, and he made himself wondrously

1:58.0

rich a long time ago. Had he been wise, he would have stopped them.

2:04.0

He would have turned over his business to someone else,

2:08.0

and then he could have spent the rest of his life in ease.

2:12.0

But what did he do instead? He built ships and sent them to sea to trade with foreign lands. He thought he would get mountains of gold. But there were great storms on the water. His ships were wrecked

2:27.1

and his riches were swallowed up by the waves. Now all his hopes lie at the bottom of the sea and his great wealth has vanished.

2:37.0

There are many such cases. Men seem to never be satisfied unless they gain the whole world.

2:45.0

As for me, if I had only enough to eat and to wear, I would not want anything more.

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