High wages bring expensive living

Motif

High wages bring expensive living.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Gains and losses. · Choices: little gain, big loss. · view the constellation · filed as J342

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

West Indies Flowers 475.

Within the index

Filed under Choices: little gain, big loss.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Barber leaves inexpensive village for high wages in city. Finds cost of living more than enough to take all his profit Wise man refuses income of half a kingdom since expenses will outweigh gain

Filed beside it

Weight of bodily member chosen rather than its loss. (Cf. J351.) Man refuses cure which brings greater inconvenience What one has is neglected in search for other things The valuable neglected for the interesting Better be content with what you have, than try to get more and lose everything Wealth and glory sacrificed for freedom and virtue

ask the rhapsode about this motif · wander