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Jeremy Taylor

"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."

Jeremy Taylor, British Clergyman
Fortune, Impatience, Man, Poor
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"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."

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