“Something for me, something for me!”—there is no use talking like this now. “Tell us the price, tell us the price!”—let him ask the question who means to buy. Otherwise, how could any bargain be struck? There would be nothing but idle talking between me and you. If I am to profit, I must get my capital back again. Tuka says, I shall store my capital at home, so that in time of need men will apply to me.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2705
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents