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“Give me neither poverty nor riches.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8eb044e912593ef464654236b9ad4b79330f8a4b8071c91829438cb2596cec9c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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