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“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Frag. 383.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 790a7fd73f7b5423014b1abe3ffddb012f48022cb64a23e56f272f36c8c11d12
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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