““I see,' said the Patrician sweetly. 'You feel, perhaps, that it would be a marvellous thing to go to the Counterweight Continent and bring back a shipload of gold?' Rincewind had a feeling that some sort of trap was being set. 'Yes?' he ventured. 'And if every man on the shores of the Circle Sea had a mountain of gold of his own? Would that be a good thing? What would happen? Think carefully.' Rincewind's brow furrowed. He thought. 'We'd all be rich?' The way the temperature fell at his remark told him that it was not the correct one.””