There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within. (John Lancaster Spalding)

There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

John Lancaster Spalding

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