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“Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things."”
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- Source:
- Of the Love of Wealth.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 13182d7a9e6824ce65957c9ca9a7d7d99592b7e8acc1a7992737cc3fa162d8ca
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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