“For what is worth in anything
But so much money as 't will bring?”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto I, line 465
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“What is the worth of any thing,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?”
"Learning: A Dialogue", line 23; in The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge (1803), Miscellaneous Verses, p. 10
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