Better be content with what you have, than try to get more and lose everything

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Better be content with what you have, than try to get more and lose everything.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Gains and losses. · Choices: little gain, big loss. · view the constellation · filed as J346

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Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, King Lear Act 1

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IcelandicÁns saga bogsv. 361, Boberg.

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Weight of bodily member chosen rather than its loss. (Cf. J351.)High wages bring expensive living Man refuses cure which brings greater inconvenience What one has is neglected in search for other things The valuable neglected for the interesting Wealth and glory sacrificed for freedom and virtue

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