Nothing keeps a Man from being rich, like thinking he has enough: Nothing from Knowledge and Wisdom, like thinking he has both.
~ Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, in The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart., Vol. I (1720). Miscellanea, Part III. Heads, Designed for an Essay on Conversation

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