We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superflui…

Plutarch
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things. ✨ Plutarch (1871). Plutarch's Morals, p.303
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things. ✨ Plutarch (1871). Plutarch's Morals, p.303

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