Listen to an extract from a story by Mark Twain In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket, and said:
Here are gifts. Take one, leave the others. And be wary, chose wisely; oh, choose wisely! For only one of them is valuable.The gifts were five: Fame, Love, Riches. Pleasure, Death. The youth said, eagerly
There is no need to consider and he chose Pleasure
He went out into the world and sought out the pleasures that youth delights in. But each in its turn was short-lived and disappointing, vain and empty, and each, departing, mocked him. In the end he said: 'These years I have wasted. If I could but choose again, I would choose wisely.