To enjoy these advantages I was ready to carry it on; like Atlas, to take the world on my shoulders⁠—I never heard what compensation he received for that⁠—and do all those things which had no other motive or excuse but that I might pay for it and be unmolested in my possession of it; for I knew all the while that it would yield the most abundant crop of the kind I wanted, if I could only afford to let it alone. But it turned out as I have said.