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contentment

"Wealth consists in not having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, who is poor."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"He is not poor who has little, but he who wants more."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, who is poor."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"He is not poor who has little, but he who wants more."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

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