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/^t/Let us imagine two old ladies who are neighbours. They always try to exceed each other in everything. Both of them have the most beautiful gardens in the area, best cut lawns and hedges. But one day one of the ladies finds out that her neighbour has bought four splendid greyhounds which look so terrific playing in the garden. Unfortunately she has no funds to buy herself four dogs that are so expensive. She cannot stand the fact that her neighbour is better. She steals secretely to the neighbour's garden and she poisons the dogs. She did an extremely evil thing which was caused by her sense of being better than others, her ambition and also jealousy. What does it have to do with money? Nothing, unless we say that she had to by a poison for it.