“A poor, charitable person can sometimes feel rich, a miserly Croesus never.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Ein armer wohlthätiger Mensch kann sich manchmal reich fühlen, ein geiziger Krösus nie.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 74.

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Austrian writer 1830–1916

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