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Felicity Quote by Plutarch

“We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.” quote by Plutarch — Download Open image

“We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.”

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