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Contentment is true Riches

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The wise saw of Democʹritos, the laughing philosopher. (B.C. 509–400.)

“Content is wealth, the riches of the mind;

And happy he who can such riches find.”


Dryden: Wife of Bath’s Tale.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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