There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth it is the beginning of wisdom. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth it is the beginning of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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