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“A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Diogenes. vi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6bd6712439fb5fe3652e1bec28fe09b21edfd7093d2aab4872840b75edc9508a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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