If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity, p.161, Simon and Schuster
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