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“Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Bion. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c0171ab7d160d5c69efafb3b048ca302092998b1c295a8f771887789d96dc828
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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