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“He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.”
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- Book
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- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 458c708c5b229fcd6e02172a3635a509156b51d42b012c1f4db10916e263e1ae
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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