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“The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man 's without a shirt.”
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- Source:
- Be Merry Friends.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0fc64c68337e4d6afe23410ed848178fb36779c7b049f202c458894f094d74a1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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