“The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.”
Robert South (1634–1716) English theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 167.
“If there's another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.”
Epitaph on William Muir
Posthumous Pieces (1799)
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