“Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.”

Context & Editorial Note

This sentence appears in “The Goose & the Golden Egg,” a fable presented in the 1919 English edition of The Æsop for Children, preserved by the Library of Congress. Within that literary setting, the narrative examines excessive desire through the consequences faced by its characters. The wording functions as a concise moral observation about wanting beyond existing abundance, while the source itself does not establish a broader historical or financial claim.